Mum Daily

March 2014

Your Family Matters

You know what they say – you can choose your friends but you can’t choose your relatives. Ain’t that the truth?! Maybe that’s why families around the globe are being torn apart.

51 Ideas to Get Your Kids Outside

Recently, I took my kids on a long overdue trip to visit their country cousins. It was the very first time they had ever been on a farm and it was oh so evident as we made our way along the meandering driveway toward the farm where my dad was born & raised, I announced ‘we’re here!’ And my son sighed: ‘now we just have to find a car park.’

Don’t Fix Me, Just Love Me

“(Teaching) children is vastly more than fixing what is wrong with them. It is about identifying and nurturing their strongest qualities.” (Seligman) Many parents believe that we should “fix” our children. Our natural response is to correct their mistakes and faults. Rather than being models and guides we become their judges and critics. But “fixing” …

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What to Say if Your Daughter is Having Friendship Dramas: Part 2

Tarney might be like your daughter.  She ranked herself mid to bottom of her friendship group’s peaking order and was continually upset and frustrated by the popular girl’s lack of regard for her. They would talk over the top of her, walk away from her when someone more interesting came along and selectively invited her …

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7 Proven Tips for a Happy Home

So, hubby walks in the door and I sort of grunt & half smile, up to my armpits in whatever just spilled on the floor, kids in hyperactive mode and the distinct smell of something burning on the stove wafting through the air. I sigh think to myself: ‘this is what my life has become…’

Do you speak ‘Childrenese’?

Have you ever travelled to a country where your native tongue isn’t the primary language spoken? Some of the locals may have been annoyed, wondering what you were doing there if you couldn’t speak the language. Others may have been patient, acknowledged your difficulty, and perhaps one kind person said, “I speak English. How can …

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