Tips for Working Mums from Working Mums
“If you’re a mom, you’re a superhero. Period.” - Rosie Pope
It’s been acknowledged from around the world that being a mother is one of...
6 Ways To Help Your Child When Your Partner Moves Away...
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Partner’s moving away for work? Here are 6 ways that you can help your child.
In today’s world, it has become increasingly...
Routine or no routine? Consider these four points before you make...
Establishing a good balance between routine and spontaneity in a child’s life can be rather challenging for parents. As newborns we may observe them...
5 ways to ensure that discipline is effective with your child
Discipline; a much debated topic among parents and caretakers, requires some amount of consideration. Very often parents fail to place importance on discipline until...
Pets or no pets; 4 points to consider
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If you are a parent and have a pet at home, you know as well as I do that it isn’t an...
Consequences VS Punishments; four points to consider
Your teenager breaks curfew again. Your ten year old comes home from school with yet another pencil case missing. Your five year old has...
Eye to eye; 5 messages you convey to your child
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Picture this scene; your two year old tugging at your clothes, from way down below, at the grocery store asking if he...
Celebrating Parenthood; 6 reasons to celebrate the journey.
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As yet another mothers’ day rolls into the calendar and many expressions of love are made, why not we as parents, take...
Making decisions about school?? Ten things to consider
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Almost every parent, is taken by surprise as to how fast time flies and how soon the schooling years come into existence...
3 reasons why we DON’T, and why we SHOULD allow ‘walking’
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By the time a young child is 15 months old, he or she, in most cases has acquired the coordination needed for...
5 Values that you can teach your young child
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As adults, we have come to understand the importance of values in our own personal lives. They give us direction in the...
6 reasons why reading with your toddler is so important.
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“You are never too old, too wacky, too wild to pick up a book and read to a child” - a saying...