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...
How can we prepare our children emotionally for Puberty?
Between the ages of 10 and 13 children start to become more aware of their bodies and how they are starting to change. They become more aware of their friendships and comments from others. If we as their parents are aware of this, we can help them to develop a healthy...
How effective are your Discipline Strategies?
When we shout and they listen, have we been successful?....it worked When we use fear and we get them to do what we want without a fuss, have we been successful? It is always a good idea to think about the long term outcome before we use discipline strategies. Our...
Why are goals so important – especially when our children are young?
Goals are a way to instil your family values so that it develops from within your children rather than you telling them what to do. How can we break goals down to make it easy to implement with our children at home? Goals can be simple conversations!! It is a process...
Parenting and Discipline to create the Family you desire Workshop (Saturday 7 March 2020)
BOOK NOW How to truly influence your children in your day to day interactions Are you having difficulties getting your children to listen? Have you ever wondered if you were parenting your children the way they need it? Do you ever feel guilty when parenting your...
Parenting and Discipline to create the Family you desire Workshop (Saturday 08 February 2020)
BOOK NOW How to truly influence your children in your day to day interactions Are you having difficulties getting your children to listen? Have you ever wondered if you were parenting your children the way they need it? Do you ever feel guilty when parenting your...