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...

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...

Burnout and Parenting: 6 attitudes that can help

Parenting with Joanne Burnout, in parenting can be best described as a feeling of utter helplessness, fatigue, and frustration. We have all been in that...

Ways to Keep your Children Safe and Happy Amidst the COVID-19...

  Due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, government authorities have taken safety measures to curb the transmission of the virus, by closing schools...

5 questions that parents of preschoolers should ask teachers

  Preschool years essentially serve as a foundation for varying learning experiences that are to come. Very often, though, these early child education years are...

Mom and dad in parenting; 5 areas that require this unmistaken...

Parenting with Joanne In an age when growing up with a single parent is rather common, it is hard to imagine the ideal of a...

Language and my toddler – 4 important thought provokers

Parenting with Joanne We hear of developmental delays and milestone charts and wonder if our child is on par with other children his age. Perhaps...

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...

Peer Relationships; What’s My Role As A Parent?

Parenting with Joanne 10 thoughts that can help you determine your stand on this matter. It's always a joy for a parent to witness their...

All Play and No Work?

As parents with pressing responsibilities around the clock, do we pay attention to our children playing? Yes! I said playing. Is playtime a regular...

Making the best of television time with your toddler; 6 points...

Parenting with Joanne There are many ideas in relation to television and children; the common one being ‘long hours of television is bad’. And I...

Half a dozen ideas that can help make meal times fun

‘Sit down and eat!!”, “You are not getting up until you finish this meal!!”, “He hardly eats anything… I don’t know what to do…” It’s...
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