Overcoming School Anxiety – its not just for kids! As those heady days of what was essentially a fantastic Summer of 2018 dwindle, many parents are having to deal with separation anxiety – and not just their child’s but their own anxiety too as...
Read moreIn this #ThursdayThoughts post, we return to a common theme in our series of articles taken from Owen Connolly‘s book “Standing on the Shoulders of Giants”: Men – their roles in society and their importance in the lives of...
Read moreAlways and never. Right and wrong. Passionate and apathetic. Sometimes teenagers can be a mess of contradictions and difficult emotions, making them hard to engage with. Today’s #ThursdayThoughts blog post considers teenagers and their...
Read moreAs individuals and as a society, we ask ourselves age-old parenting questions like, have we made the right choices, will our children turn out ok, what should we do differently, etc. And we also ask ourselves new questions like, should I get my...
Read moreCouples who are unable to have children, often turn to adoption to create the family that they had hoped for. But before they take this step, it is important that they consider the difficulties that they may encounter as parents of adopted...
Read moreAs we’ve written about before in this blog, it can be easy to let our own past determine the decisions we make in our parenting. This is especially true if we haven’t dealt with negative experiences from our childhood. Sometimes we...
Read moreScreaming toddlers. Out-of-control children. Disrespectful teenagers. Rude adults. Sometimes it seems that one thing inevitably leads to another. How can parents help their children live a better way, with a healthier emotional life? In...
Read moreLove is in the air this week, as many people around the world have been celebrating Valentine’s Day. And, of course, various types of love are celebrated, whether it be parental love, sibling love, friendship love or loving your pet! But...
Read moreThis Thursday we consider a topic that is very much in the news and increasingly on the minds of parents, society and government too. It seems that childhood obesity is only increasing, despite the measures many are taking to address it. In his...
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