Gratitude is one way to ensure that life is always experienced in the positive. It’s a choice that takes practice and as such, is a skill that can be taught. I believe that learning the basics of good old fashioned “please” and “thank you” is the foundation for learning gratitude. When you have to […]
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Babies are not born grateful and Toddlers are fully self obsessed, so the art of gratefulness has to be shown to your littlies. Gratefulness cannot be “taught” to your children, it is “caught”. So, be good models Mum and Dad! Always use ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ in your every day language, and insist on your children using these words also.
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Who’d have thought that simply being grateful could have so many health and wellbeing benefits? In controlled experimental trials conducted by the Greater Good Science Centre, one group was asked to write down 5 things they were grateful for each day, another group was asked to write down the things that annoyed them each day.
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I used to be a parenting expert. If I witnessed a toddler tantrum, I could tell the struggling mum exactly how to pull said toddler into line. A misbehaving child? I knew precisely what to do. Fussy eater? Not in my house! That’s right people, I used to be a parenting expert… Then I had
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I always remember the winter school holidays with great fondness. Cold, short days spent for the main part indoors together. Pj’s until lunch time, toasted sandwiches for lunch, blankets in the lounge room, movies and ABC kids TV in the arvo! Those were such fun and simple times of being together and creating memories. My children – now 28 and 25 can still recall those movies and TV programmes we watched when we reminisce their primary school years.
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I attended a “Pirates and Princesses” party with my son today. I so enjoyed dressing him in a costume for the first time in his short life (he’s just 2) and teaching him how to “arrrhhh” just right. I, of course, jumped at the opportunity to dress as a princess, borrowing my daughter’s hand-crafted tiara
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(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