Being a Dad and working long hours do not always fit neatly together. You will have to take time to work out how you can balance both in a positive and productive way. Being the family provider and wanting to be a “good” father and do well at work can create a lot of pressure […]
According to research conducted in 2012, we’re all suffering from a chronic lack of awe!
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Have you noticed that our typical discipline strategies – the ones where we use our power to punish our kids – tend to leave us feeling lousy about ourselves? Plus, they leave our kids feeling rotten, AND they rarely work well anyway. That’s partly because most discipline is about doing things to our children. Research shows
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Imagine a life without pain. Sounds too good to be true, doesn’t it?
I just finished watching a story on 60 Minutes called ‘Pain Free.’ Far from being a utopic experience, it played out more like a horror story.
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Teaching our children values is arguably the most important role we have as parents. Our son’s perception of women and the relationships he has with them will set the foundation for his life. You play a big role in determining how he sees and treats women. The crazy part is that most of the time
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Having lived in USA for 4 1/2 years, and having 2 children born there who now have dual citizenship, we were fortunate to be able to become quite entrenched in American culture. America is actually a very different culture than the perception than Australians traditionally have through watching American TV shows. When it comes
My kids and I were watching a Disney movie recently. In the movie a dad, who was coaching his child’s sport team, yelled at his son. After the coaching session the boy asked his Dad, “Why did you yell at me but you didn’t yell at all the other kids?” His Dad yelled back in
Like most mothers of one child, I had spent an enormous amount of time buying only organic food and making everything from scratch. And in my perfect world, I had decided that my baby wouldn’t grow up having lollies and chocolate (what they didn’t know they were missing out on, the better!). But reality had
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If you’ve got kids, you probably don’t have a reasonable photo of yourself, by yourself. I think it’s good to remember that you are an individual apart from your kids and husband/partner in this very kid-centric world. (And yes, I did just make that word up). Recently I was doing some styling for a photoshoot
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A recent UK study has found that the average child asks around 300 questions a day.
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