I don’t know about your kids but mine fight over the silliest things, and as a parent with as little patience as I possess, this can be frustratingly regular. And yet, fighting is natural, age appropriate response so I began to consider what the silver lining of my children’s fighting might be. Here are […]
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I have a confession to make: I am a recovering yeller. I used to yell. A lot. I was raised by a couple of yellers, all my siblings are yellers, and though I desperately try to stop, and am horribly ashamed of the fact, that I do yell at my children. Not all the
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Sometimes you may wonder how one sibling differs so much from another! Even though we are all born with different personalities and temperaments, you may still get a sweet, delightful and easygoing child in the family and another child who is also gorgeous but may constantly be pushing at your buttons!! Identifying Triggers What makes your child
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Since becoming a mother, people have been offering advice more than ever. In addition to the well-intended advice I receive, I also tend to inform myself by reading widely on parenting issues. Recently I read two different articles, one on guilt free parenting and another on refraining from saying “be careful” to your child.
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We all have a favourite Disney princess – admit it. They were the backdrop of our childhood and some films resonated with us more than others. I always loved ‘Sleeping Beauty’ but the Disney princess I found the most in common with was Belle. She was an avid book reader with a huge imagination
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Miss 4 was caught stealing the other day. Caught red-handed, and slightly guilty, though more upset that she was caught rather than upset at having done the wrong thing. Basically, it was a shopping trip like any other, except intentionally speedy. I had all four of my children with me, as it was the
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Pregnancy is often a time of emotional upheaval, anxiety and nervous anticipation. It can also be a time of physical discomfort sickness. But what if you discovered that along with your pregnancy you had another health issue – a tumour on your uterus. That’s exactly the scenario that faced Gianna Molla when she was
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Wouldn’t it be nice to return to our childhood? Often it seems that all children do all day is play. And of course, they do! They flit from one activity to the next like busy little bees and always seem to be entertained or distracted with something. In a ‘First Steps’ course I attended
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Why is it that we are so quick to judge other parenting styles? Even when we don’t mean to, we often put across our own preferred method whilst tearing down another which someone else has found effective. It is almost as though we feel threatened by difference here instead of discussing the pros and
No one likes to hear a baby crying inconsolably. It is one of the hardest things to hear and whilst this post is about crying, I’m not talking about that sort of crying, nor am I advocating that you let your baby cry without reason. I’m talking about learning the various cries your baby
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