In parenting, ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ feeds shame and shame puts you at the mercy of a model that will keep you searching for answers forever.

Did anyone tell us that parenting needs us to have a certain kind of fitness? Nope – well let’s talk about the elephant in the room now…

Discipline in family life is a challenging topic. How do we navigate discipline in this tricky world?

How much do we want our children to like us? Wanting our children to like us can lead to complications and trouble with a capital 'T'

It is time to talk about child to parent abuse. It is an increasingly common thread yet abuse does not need to be a lodger in our home.

Our kids see far more than we expect them to, and are far more equipped to handle it than we give them credit for. So, why pretend?

Someone once described ‘love’ to me as having a beholding quality - I could feel how beautiful that felt, and I understood what the words...

“Anger is a big fat lie that doesn’t need to dominate us, it’s not what it says on the box.”

Why not hear how others have managed this process?

With parenting, it’s easy to take things personally; on reflection though, I don’t think it is a personal thing.

Saying no to bullying is a skill we all want for our children and for ourselves. Let’s look at what ‘feeds’ the bully in the first place.

We may not tell boys explicitly, but with all our actions they learn what is acceptable and what is not from what we model.

Do we ever wonder what it is that our children see when they look at us? 

‘Fitting in’ is an unspoken directive that to survive they have to toughen up yet where does this lead? Pack energy doesn’t ‘just happen’...

Boundaries are needed to learn about responsibility, decency and respect in families. Read more…

Honesty, trust and truth in families starts with US. How honest are we being with each other?