How to Teach Your Children About Stranger Danger

Stranger danger can be a difficult subject to address with children. A child and family psychologist recommends taking a different approach from those used in the past....

15 January, 2020

Men in Stepfamilies

Stepfamilies provide opportunities for men to review the roles they have adopted as partners, fathers and caregivers, argues Steve Martin. Men face the challenge of looking into themselves for a sense of identity and strength rather than relying only on external, culturally prescribed definitions of their...

04 January, 2020

The Purpose of Praise

Summer holidays are the perfect chance for parents to try more positive reinforcement, says Clinical psychologist Renee Mill as she considers how it affects children’s self-esteem. Being realistic is often hard for parents because they truly want to boost their child’s ego, and worry that being...

04 January, 2020

5 Top tips: How to choose the right childcare centre

Carol Soleymanbik has been a childcare centre director for 17 years. She believes the very best childcare centres are those which go over and above the basics to truly nurture each child’s early development. Here she shares her top five tips to help you choose...

04 January, 2020

A Life Less Serious

Since when did adulthood equate to no fun, asks Kerry Littrich. I remembered having the same thought as a child; that when I became a grown-up I would do whatever I want, whenever I wanted to do it and there would be no-one to boss me...

30 December, 2019

Fact Or Fantasy?

Katrina Germein wants her son to maintain a modicum of magic in his life. …it is the fairy questions that I continue to find the hardest, perhaps because I’ve never really grown out of fairies myself. Perhaps because I know how important fairies are to my...

30 December, 2019

Summer School holiday movies for kids

What’s on at the movies for the Summer school holidays? Little Women Based on the classic Louisa May Alcott’ American Civil War (1861-1865) family drama this new movie adaptation mostly stays true to the original storyline. Set in a time when women’s roles were clearly defined,...

21 December, 2019

Managing Children’s Expectations: A Key To Happy Holidays

Christmas can bring all sorts of problems for parents when children are expecting more than they will receive. This handy guide can help! Ten-year-old Sara keeps her holiday wish list in a notebook, adding new items as she watches Saturday morning cartoons. The list is six...

20 December, 2019

Why Boredom Is Good for Kids

Is our desire to keep our kids constantly stimulated actually having the opposite effect?...

20 December, 2019

5 Tips to reduce Asthma anxiety in kids

A child’s asthma can make both themselves, and their parents anxious, says Dr Gemma Sicouri. So what can a parent or carer do to help? With the hazardous air quality taking over our cities skylines, parents of children with asthma may be particularly concerned. Asthma is one...

11 December, 2019