The Modern Parent: now personally helping families in the modern world
Welcome to the new look Modern Parent! I hope you like my fresh new design that incorporates my desire to continue to help guide families
Welcome to the new look Modern Parent! I hope you like my fresh new design that incorporates my desire to continue to help guide families
Last year I took up the challenge from Naomi from Seven Cherubs to write a sentence a day that records something that makes you happy
This week in Australia and in many places around the world, we stop to commemorate ANZAC day and the history of sacrifice for which it
Do you ever think about birth order and the roles and personality traits that accompany your childrens chronological entrance into the world? Does birth order
The children of today are really no different to those of years gone by. They want to hang out with their mates, they want to
Follow your passions, use your blog as a microphone for social good, believe in your ability and power to bring about social change and get
So this week we endured, embraced, rallied and relished 48 hours of life that was technology free. Yes we had no television no internet, no
Last week I week I got an email asking me to be an ambassador for the disCONNECT challenge. In light of my previous post on
Why do we need to understand the technology that our kids are immersed in? The reason is simply that. It is their world, and like
Reading , watching or hearing about people who overcome adversity always makes us feel good. We love to know that hard work pays off, that
Being sick really isn’t any fun at all. And being sick when you have other little (or big) people you are responsible for is even
I recently found myself giving in and watching the movie “The Help” as despite having a copy of the book by my bedside table I
There are many similiarities in the way people deal with grief, but overwhelmingly, grief is a very individual experience. Lately I have heard many people asking for advice on how
As parents it seems there are 2 things most of us are pretty good at, and that is feeling guilty and judging, both ourselves and
“Nostalgia” “Wonderful memories” “takes me back to my childhood” I have heard these statements bandied around a fair bit this past week and was even
There is nothing more frustrating than a toddler or young child that put ups the same arguments, procrastinations, tantrums and refusals in order to avoid
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly. In life we should strive for success, aspire to do great things and be conscious
As I approach my one year blogiversary, it still kind of amazes me that it was only this time last year that I actually read
As another new year abruptly nudges on in, the notion of making new years resolutions begin to spin around in our heads as we dream of