(I know I’ll sound like my Nana when I use this opening line) When I was a little girl (see, told you!), I was only allowed to watch TV on weekends and during school holidays. This was excruciating for me, because every morning before school, all my friends would be talking about the latest episode of Neighbours and I’d listen in, feeling left out.
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End of semester reports and grades are starting to trickle through. Please, let’s all celebrate the effort our kids have put in and the kind of people they are, more than the letter of the alphabet in the results column. Have you ever been to a funeral where the eulogy included the person’s Year
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It’s important to help our children foster a positive self / body image. Help them to love who they are and to embrace their body shape and size, their colouring and height and to respect others in the same way. Our children will then be able to accept and celebrate difference, and to not be afraid of difference.
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As parents we have all been exposed to the ‘Parent Teacher Interview’. I remember as a child dreading the return of my parents following their interview with my teachers. I knew they would hear the standard, which was always: 1) Susan’s grades are good 2) Susan talks too much in class 3) Susan socializes too
It always happens when you’re at your most tired and looking after the kids by yourself. One or multiple children engage in a maddening act that would be enough to make a grown man cry. This happened to me yesterday. It was the end of a very busy patch with my husband absent more often
If you’re struggling to cope with the graphic details and images you’re exposed to in the media lately (cyclones, acts of terrorism and violence), imagine what must be going through the minds of your children. Children contend with these images according to their age and development. Little ones will often mix what is real with
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Whether we like it or not, you and I are pioneers in this brave new world of parenting in cyberspace. Answering questions our parents never had to deal with like; is my child too young to have a twitter account? When should I buy my kid his first ipod? And how much computer time is