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Posted on July 14, 2025 3:08 pm
Surviving school holidays. School holidays are a time of holidays and a break from school. School holidays can fill parents with dread and fear. Surviving 6 weeks of school holidays with your children can seem daunting. School holidays can be a Read more...
Posted on July 10, 2025 4:07 pm
What do you do when your child’s school attendance is poor? Lets be clear this isn’t a child feigning illness to dodge a sports day or test its a child struggling at school. Struggling emotionally to an extent it negatively affecting thei Read more...
Posted on July 2, 2025 2:57 pm
“One More or Just One? Navigating the Second Child Decision” The Big Question is should you have another child. Possibly the biggest question for parents. Children aren’t like cars. Should you have another child is not a quest Read more...
Posted on June 20, 2025 4:15 pm
What to do when your Child has a FAVOURITE parent? When my son was about eight years old, he went through a phase of preferring to sit next to me and spend most of his time closer to me. I was clearly his favourite parent. It drove my wife crazy. If Read more...
Posted on June 12, 2025 5:20 pm
How do we avoid childhood obesity in our children? A new report details what most parents know, why our children have stopped moving and childhood obesity is growing. Children will sit and play on technology all day if they are left. They don’t Read more...
Posted on June 6, 2025 4:12 pm
Do we ever truly know how much a new baby will change our lives? Going from a ‘carefree’ couple to also looking after a new baby is a big change but a change most parents welcome, I hope. Babies bring parents closer together while pushing Read more...
Posted on June 2, 2025 2:01 pm
Family holidays can be stressful and for some parents spending that much time with their children daunting. Taking the time to think about what you want from a family holiday can avoid some of those stresses and pitfalls. Family holidays are meant to Read more...
Posted on May 22, 2025 10:31 am
Is WhatsApp safe for children. A question we’ve been asking ourselves more and more recently. We say is WhatsApp safe for children but there are other messaging apps but WhatsApp is the one we know and use as parents. My wife’s phones ble Read more...
Posted on May 15, 2025 12:17 pm
Helping Your Child In a Mental Health Crisis As I write this blog, it is mental health awareness week, which aims to bring awareness to the issues around mental illness. For some time, I have personally worried about the current explosion in mental h Read more...
Posted on May 12, 2025 1:19 pm
Is free range parenting just going back to a simpler time? Its easy to think of free range parenting as a Hollywood fad that’s really just 70’s parenting. Its true free range parenting is all about allowing greater freedoms to teach Read more...