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Fear based parenting… it’s damaging to you both
Fear based parenting drives you to be controlling, to pull the reins in, to be that "proactive" parent who's making sure their toddler/child/teen isn't going to grow into a drug addict or drunk like your mother/father/grandarent/brother/sister did. It's attaching...
All emotions are just a call to action…
The are also unconscious, part of our emotional brain, and drive you to meet a need. You can't talk your way out of an emotional need, because the emotional brain hijacks you. It's easy to meet that need when you're in a good mood. It's harder when the negative...
Food for moods and behaviour
I thought I just had a high spirited energetic little boy, one that I could handle but it seems others struggled with. It was when I moved him to a new daycare lady (the previous one asked me to find a new one) that I first heard about the impact of food on children's...
Raising Resilience in children is not assured if you just do this…
I'm in the throws of preparing for my FREE Webinar next week (June 23, 2015) on 7 ways of growing resilience in children and wouldn't you know it, someone else wrote another blog on the subject.. "18 ways to raise a resilient child". I do like reading other...
3 reasons why you can’t both have the same parenting style…
AND... when your parenting style becomes an issue It's one of the biggest myths around parenting... that both parents must have the same parenting style and be consistent. It totally gets in the way of your relationship with each other and for really good reasons too....
Preparing for school… from starting to changing
Wow, how quick and yet how long do these school holidays seem? At this time of the year you may have experienced a crazy mumma or pappa period... having to expend a lot of energy keeping young ones amused, calm or helping them to return to some level of calmness. Or...
Youth Suicide and Self Harm – How to help a child
I am heart broken and disturbed by the news that a girl as young as 10 years of age felt there was no other option but to take her life this week. I was horrified to hear that over 50 young people present to hospital with self harming injuries in Australia each week....
If they are an @#$!! then what does that make me? Single parent mistakes.
My family is blended.. I have an amazing, loving boy from a previous... ummm hiccup. It's hard for me to even call it a relationship as you can see because at the time it happened, it wasn't. I was in a dark place in my life.. I felt abandoned by love and this young...
The art of happiness.. Why don’t we teach this at school?
In my (dream) ideal world children would have an understanding and a language around both the facts of the world and also the emotions of the world... The inner and out world that is... what is happiness, what is frustration, what is grief and so on. We teach our...
MUDY.. My Ugly Duckling Youth & Beauty Redefined
There's an empowering movement, one I'm quite passionate and grateful for and it's called Beauty Redefined. It calls to light some of the hideous cultural messages we send girls and women and sets girls up to feel less than worthy based on...
