5 Tips to Support and Encourage your Shy Child
5 Tips to Support and Encourage your Shy Child Want to know just how to encourage your shy child? Often, we focus on the in the moment strategy to get them to try to take action with something they feel shy about. While we do need to do this, having lots of small...
4 Tips to Help your Child Handle Peer Pressure
4 Tips to Help your Child Handle Peer Pressure It can be really tough when your children are influenced by peer pressure. It feels so out of control for a parent, but it is important for us to focus on what we can control which is the conversations we have with our...
Ever doubt how to manage boundaries with big emotional outbursts from your toddler
Ever doubt how to manage boundaries with big emotional outbursts from your toddler Ever worry whether your boundaries will impact your toddler’s emotional wellbeing? As we know tantrums are part of your toddler’s emotional growth. It is a phase in their learning...
4 Tips to Tame Toddler Tantrums
Pre-empt the need We often know what our toddler has tantrums about and what triggers it. If not, start to notice what triggers it, is it lack of sleep, overstimulation, a rushed schedule or a lack of clarity on the situation? When we know what triggers it, we can...
Do you ask for what you want on Mother’s Day
Do you ask for what you want on Mother’s Day? When asking the question “Do you ask for what you want on Mother’s Day?” I often get resistance. Answers like: they should know by now what I want, it’s not the same if I have to ask, I am always asking for what I want and...
How do you feel when your children struggle? What can you do?
How do you feel when your children struggle? What can you do? I think as parents we all want our children to be happy and have a good life. The question is: Does that include the struggle? While we know logically that challenges are part of life, I often find parents...
Holiday Expectations
Holiday Expectations, Yearend Expectations - What are your expectations for these December holidays? How can you have an awesome December regardless? Very often at this time of year everyone is tired and just looking forward to the holidays, some may not even be...
Do your children listen
Do you hear yourself saying “ I just want my children to listen!” ? Do your children listen? So often as parents we parent from our perspective and get frustrated when our children don’t listen. Have you ever stopped to think, I wonder how my child is seeing this? I...
Preparing ourselves and our children for back to school in Covid
Preparing ourselves and our children for back to school in Covid Sending our children back to school is a difficult decision to make often leaving us more anxious than our children. They are excited to go back, but they don’t really have the big picture of the...
Are your children still doing their school sessions at home
Are your children still doing their school sessions at home during COVID? How are you managing getting them to into doing their work? Many parents have chosen to still keep their children at home during this time and find it really challenging to balance being a...