The culture of your family will be based on 3 things 1) what you allow 2) what you don’t allow 3) What you demonstrate/how you live your life I know what you’re thinking; That is way too simple, and way too obvious. Yes! Just the way I like things. At least when things are simple, […]
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Stay IN this October and host a Girls’ Night In to raise awareness and funds to beat women’s cancers. It’s a great way to educate women about how they can prevent and detect cancer in a positive and engaging way, to encourage each other to take action. Girls’ Night In hosts are encouraged to spend a
This is my go-to recipe when guests are dropping by at the last minute. It’s so quick and easy – with ingredients I always have in the cupboard AND it doesn’t even have eggs or milk in it – Great for guests with allergies 🙂 I’ve included the icing recipe but to be honest, I
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Focus on Effort, Not Outcome Do you get excited when your children get everything right? Or do you get excited when your children make mistakes and feel like what they’re doing is hard? Studies show that when we praise or reward kids for being brilliant, they get caught up in ‘proving’ how good they are.
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Mother’s email: So what do you do when you know your daughter is under the legal age for sexual consent, which I understand to be 16 years old, and you know she is going out to a friend’s and will be having sex there? Sometimes with facebook monitoring software, you find out more than you
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There wasn’t anything special about the menu. I think it might have even been leftovers and we kept the conversation light, not to exclude our guest.
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For the past several decades lots of ‘experts’ have told us that praise boosts our kids’ confidence. While this can be true in some instances, research has consistently called this idea into question. In fact, a lot of research shows that praising our kids can actually undermine their confidence. In his book, ‘The Optimistic Child’
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SPRING IS IN THE AIR Without a doubt spring is my favourite season. There are a number of good reasons for this (mostly personal and selfish). Not only do we come into what I think is the perfect temperature, giving more excuses to head back into the pool and beach but weather wise, almost every
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I saw this dress (All Aboard) in the Metalicus catalogue in July and bought it in readiness for Spring. I’m so loving its on-trend orange. I had lots of positive comments when I wore it today. I’ve teamed it with this bright, summery tribal print handbag from Journie. It’s called Tribal Illusions Traveller. Earrings are
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Eleven years ago, I met a guy. He was funny, intelligent, kind and genuinely wanted to make a difference. Our friends set us up and now he’s my husband of ten years. It hasn’t been a typical fairy tale. We faced issues just before we got married that threatened our relationship. We’ve moved interstate twice
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