Blog Category: Essential Kids Blog

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The risk of not letting our children take risks

Lenore Skenazy, author of Free Range Kids, has been fighting against laws in the US ...

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Raising ‘we’ kids not just ‘me’ kids

As I was taking my morning walk today, I came across water running down a ...

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Surviving the first week of high school

As a former high school teacher, year coordinator and counsellor — as well as a ...

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A good dog helps kids care

Parenting is a tough gig and in the pursuit of making choices that enable our ...

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Supporting your teen through grief

When I was running seminars for teens, I noticed one afternoon working with some 14- ...

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Making kids feel safe in 24/7 bad news cycle

When I heard the devastating news last week that four lives were lost (and many ...

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To praise or not to praise

Over the past couple of weeks I have been immersed in toddler land with my ...

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Why won’t my kids play outside?

It must be annoying for many parents today who hear stories from older folk like ...

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Raising Awesome Teens in a Chaotic, Sexualised World

with an afterword by Steve Biddulph The story in the media this week about the ...

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Expectations: a help or a hindrance?

It is that time – that once every four years time where dreams are made ...

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Why being a firm, loving parent matters

Without a doubt parenting is confusing, challenging, exhausting, fabulous, delightful and amazing, and often all ...

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The power of the parental pause

In those tough parenting moments, this secret may be your saving grace. There are many ...

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Sobering truths about being a mother

Mother’s Day in Australia is rapidly approaching and thanks to our commercial, consumer-driven world there ...

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4 Steps to Toddler Genius

Toddlers are wired to explore, investigate, question and be curious so that they may come ...

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Family meetings

Technically a family operates like a small organisation, like a community or even a small ...

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Sensitive kids starting school

As school holidays run out faster than the water out of the bath, parents know ...

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The comfort of family ritual

As the end of the year comes hurtling toward us, many of us who celebrate ...

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In praise of a common-sense revolution

Recently I was listening to a radio interview with a motoring expert, and a listener ...