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Risk Taking Behaviour: from the Toddler to the Teenager
At just 8 months of age my youngest boy has a few bruises and bumps to show for his dare devil antics as he tries with...
Read More >>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...
Read More >>Happy Days in May: a sentence a day in the month of May
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...
Read More >>Remembering ANZAC’s and talking to our kids about war
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...
Read More >>Birth Order: What happens when it gets rejigged?
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...
Read More >>Public versus Private: Technology blurs the lines for our kids
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...
Read More >>I learnt things too at the Digital Parents Conference
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...
Read More >>How we disCONNECTED to connect
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 computers,...
Read More >>disCONNECT: can we really turn everything off?
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...
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