A Christmas message from The Modern Parent
Well it ain’t no message from the Queen but the picture above pretty much sums up all that I wish for myself, my friends my family and
December 24, 2011 4 Comments
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Answering questions about Father Christmas: How do you do Santa in your house?
When it comes to questions about Santa’s extraordinary stamina and logistical feats on Christmas Eve, we as parents are often heard talking about the magic
December 18, 2011 14 Comments
5 Ways to build a connection with your child despite your busy lifestyle
After a busy week unpacking a house, preparing for a 10th birthday and recovering from my husbands 40th, it is now time to get back to
December 13, 2011 3 Comments
The best ages and stages of our childrens development
What is your favourite stage of a child’s development? Recently I have found myself saying to a lot of parents of babies and children of
December 5, 2011 5 Comments
Bloggers Brunch, Brands and The Modern Parent
Last Friday, myself and 50 or so other bloggers gathered together for my third Bloggers Brunch run by the lovely Christie from Kids Business. These
November 29, 2011 22 Comments
Keeping on top of your photos & Preserving your precious memories
How good are you at saving, storing, printing and displaying your photos? Are these precious memories laying precariously on a memory disk waiting to be
November 22, 2011 10 Comments
Why we should let the village raise the child
It takes a village to raise a child? Or so the African proverb tells us. Whilst this may still be the case in many parts
November 15, 2011 41 Comments
Christmas fun, photos and festivity with Huggies, Apps an ebooks
When Huggies recently sent me some of their new limited edition Christmas Nappies it caught me a little by surprise. Christmas already!
November 7, 2011 7 Comments
Where did that time go?
Remember when you were little and time seemed to take forever? When Christmas Day was over I remember bemoaning the fact that it would be
November 2, 2011 2 Comments
Reigning in our kids language: keeping things in perspective
I started thinking about the way my children speak upon hearing my 2 year old, yes 2 year old, refer to something as “sick”…meaning good,
October 28, 2011 14 Comments
4 things I learnt from the Problogger Training Day to be used in real life
Last Friday, 300 or so bloggers and myself, descended on the city of Melbourne to attend a Bloggers Training Day organised by blogging guru Darren Rowse of
October 23, 2011 22 Comments
Grief, birthdays and remembering
I struggled with a title for this post and also about the content as well. It could have been about friendships and how they have helped me
October 17, 2011 13 Comments
8 ways to improve assertiveness, for parents and their children
Assertiveness. Something we all need but something that doesn’t always come naturally. In my last post we looked at the importance of assertiveness, what it
October 13, 2011 3 Comments
How assertive are you? The importance of assertiveness for parent and child
What does it mean to be assertive? How Assertive are you? Why is assertiveness so important? How can being a more assertive parent make for
October 7, 2011 10 Comments
Football and family: 6 reasons why football makes me a better parent
As I bask in the glory of post Grand Final elation, I begin to wonder why football means so much to me and my family. (some
October 2, 2011 1 Comment
20 dinner table conversation starters: connecting with our kids
Last week we looked at ways to improve the communication between ourselves and our kids. We looked at some different strategies to hopefully avoid the one
September 27, 2011 3 Comments
Communicating with our kids: getting more than one word answers
How do you get more than one word answers from your kids? How do you get them to engage in a conversation rather than respond
September 21, 2011 17 Comments
Effective Praise in Parenting
This weeks Cherishing the Cherubs project focuses on Praise. Praise and positive reinforcement is a crucial element in providing our children with much that they
September 12, 2011 14 Comments
Rock and Play Sleeper
Having given birth to my 5th son just a few weeks ago, I know a thing or two about soothing and settling babies, and so
September 10, 2011 2 Comments
The Fathers Day Interview: another way to record and remember
This weeks link up with Seven Cherubs ‘Cherish the Cherubs task is to be based around the Interview. Interviewing family and friends is a great way to
September 5, 2011 14 Comments
What’s the worst that can happen? A strategy for dealing with stress
As a parent we often find ourselves in stressful situations. In a matter of seconds, relative peace can turn into a cacophony of chaos and
September 1, 2011 15 Comments
Remembering Ava
Last week I linked up with Naomi from Seven Cherubs for her series on “Cherishing the Cherubs” and we looked at Recording aspects of our childrens
August 29, 2011 19 Comments
Cereals, Breakfast and the importance of morning routines
It is fair to say that the last few weeks and months have bought about a couple of changes to the routines of our household.
August 26, 2011 3 Comments
Recording the Memories
Sometimes it doesn’t hurt for us to remember to take some time out to focus on the little things. We spend so much time planning
August 22, 2011 23 Comments
Would you dob on your own child?
How far would you go to teach your child a lesson? The recent riots in the UK led to the revelation that a mother, on
August 18, 2011 10 Comments
Advice to live by: for new parents and old
As I approach that time again (yes giving birth), it has led me to reflect on some of the advice that is usually offered as
August 12, 2011 18 Comments
Dont be sad for me: babies and their gender
Recently somebody asked me if I knew the sex of my unborn child. “Yes we do” I replied proudly, “we are having another little boy”.
August 4, 2011 68 Comments
Speaking our childrens language: chat speak and internet acronyms
When reading over the shoulder of a young persons internet chatting or mobile phone texting, one could be forgiven for believing they had come across
July 28, 2011 11 Comments
11 Practical ways parents can help build self esteem
Self esteem is one of the most important aspects of our children’s development. Having a healthy and positive self esteem means our children feel good
July 21, 2011 27 Comments
Why praise alone won’t build self esteem
Having a positive self esteem is one of the most important aspects of our child’s development. Of all the judgements we pass in life, none
July 14, 2011 7 Comments
Trusting our instinct and doing whats right for ourselves and our family
With constant access to a never ending stream of information, it has never been so easy to get caught up in a world ‘googling’ all
July 7, 2011 7 Comments
How good are you at following through?
Whilst trying to tame the monster of effective parenting and discipline, we have all made a myriad of threats that for whatever reason we have
July 1, 2011 2 Comments
Technology and Parenting – A help or a hindrance?
Have the changes in technology made the job of parenting easier or harder? Do changes to the modern world mean changes to the way we
June 23, 2011 4 Comments
The Stepladder Approach to helping with anxiety
When anxiety is beyond ‘being a little bit shy and awkward’ and develops instead into something unreasonably fearful, there are steps we as a parent
June 17, 2011 5 Comments
Strategies to help children cope with anxiety
Whilst anxiety can be a normal response to the fears and worries that present themseles to our children, there is also evidence of increasing instances
June 10, 2011 12 Comments
Childhood Anxiety- What’s Normal?
Anxiety can be a normal part of human functioning and something that we all experience to some degree. As a parent with an overly anxious
June 2, 2011 4 Comments
Helping Kids with Friendships- From Toddlers to Teens
“Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.” — Baltasar Gracian (1647) Friendships are some of the most important relationships we have throughout
May 26, 2011 8 Comments
5 WAYS TO STAY CONNECTED TO YOUR KIDS THROUGHOUT THE TEENAGE YEARS
As we have seen with the changes to the Teenage brain and the social and emotional effects of these changes on our children, one of
May 19, 2011 8 Comments
THE HAPPINESS PROJECT
Could you do with the occasional reminder of all the great things that you have in life? Are there times when it seems that
May 14, 2011 17 Comments
From child to adult…the social and emotional changes affecting our teenagers
“People spend their childhood learning to be like their parents and their adolescence learning who they are and how they are different from their parents”
May 10, 2011 26 Comments