Six tips from Harvard psychologists on how to raise ‘good’ kids
How do you raise kids? It’s a question that crosses parents’ minds – expecting or currently in the thick of it – at least once a week. It doesn’t matter how prepared you think you are, things don’t always go to plan or turn out the way you expected, you can read all of the […]
2 years ago
This mum’s approach to disciplining her children made me change my own method
It’s a game-changer. For my own personal parenting style, I like to think that most of the time, I find a nice balance between chill and flexible but also being strict and able to do some disciplining when I need to be. However, I always found the issue of disciplining my children a difficult one. […]
3 years ago
Here is how we can all savour our children more – while they are still little
My little girl just started secondary school this week. Secondary school. I really can’t wrap my head around how that happened. It feels like only yesterday when she was lifted up, all warm and slippery and so brand new, onto my chest by the midwife who delivered her. Like mere seconds since she took her […]
4 years ago
Apparently, dads spend 7 hours a year in the bathroom – hiding from their families
Raising children is a job that really can take it out of you. Between the nappy changes and the lunchboxes and the Lego fights and the lost shoes and misplaced Pokemon cards and the never-ending homework battles, being a parent is pretty much synonymous with having little to no me-time. Or is it…? It turns […]
4 years ago
I completely changed how I respond when my children act up – and it changed everything
I have been a mother for 12 years. To say that I have learned a lot is an understatement of epic proportions. Because such is motherhood – the only job where you are given full responsibility of the actual life and death variety on Day One, with no training necessary, no courses, no degree, no […]
4 years ago
This Mother’s Day we’re asking, where is this “village”we were promised?
Sometimes, my house is filled with people. My children are ecstatic whenever we have their cousins, aunts, uncles and grandparents visiting from Norway. It can be busy and loud, but my goodness, it is also so, so lovely. And if you think they get excited, I think I’m even more delighted. Raising my children away […]
4 years ago