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Do you feel ashamed of how you parent?
  • Feb 27
  • 3 min

Do you feel ashamed of how you parent?

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.
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Parenting Fitness
  • Jan 27
  • 2 min

Parenting Fitness

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…
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What is 'discipline' in family life?
  • Jan 21
  • 2 min

What is 'discipline' in family life?

Discipline in family life is a challenging topic. How do we navigate discipline in this tricky world?
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Trying to be 'liked' as parents
  • Jan 6
  • 3 min

Trying to be 'liked' as parents

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'
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Why do I feel scared of my child?
  • Aug 14, 2021
  • 2 min

Why do I feel scared of my child?

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.
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How well do we hide our challenges?
  • Aug 7, 2021
  • 3 min

How well do we hide our challenges?

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?
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What is Love?
  • Feb 12, 2021
  • 4 min

What is Love?

Someone once described ‘love’ to me as having a beholding quality - I could feel how beautiful that felt, and I understood what the words...
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Anger Awareness
  • Nov 7, 2020
  • 5 min

Anger Awareness

“Anger is a big fat lie that doesn’t need to dominate us, it’s not what it says on the box.”
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Finishing High School - for parents
  • Oct 14, 2020
  • 1 min

Finishing High School - for parents

Why not hear how others have managed this process?
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A Mother's Voice - Raising My Boys
  • Aug 21, 2020
  • 6 min

A Mother's Voice - Raising My Boys

With parenting, it’s easy to take things personally; on reflection though, I don’t think it is a personal thing.
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Saying 'No' to bullying
  • Jul 17, 2020
  • 2 min

Saying 'No' to bullying

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.
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Challenging 'boys don't cry'
  • Jul 17, 2020
  • 2 min

Challenging 'boys don't cry'

We may not tell boys explicitly, but with all our actions they learn what is acceptable and what is not from what we model.
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What do our children see?
  • Jun 19, 2020
  • 2 min

What do our children see?

Do we ever wonder what it is that our children see when they look at us? 
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Boys, fitting in, and pack energy
  • May 29, 2020
  • 3 min

Boys, fitting in, and pack energy

‘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’...
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Boundaries and Reactions
  • Jan 29, 2020
  • 2 min

Boundaries and Reactions

Boundaries are needed to learn about responsibility, decency and respect in families. Read more…
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Honesty, Trust and truth in families
  • Nov 29, 2019
  • 4 min

Honesty, Trust and truth in families

Honesty, trust and truth in families starts with US. How honest are we being with each other?
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Have you ever found the 'rule book' doesn't fit your child or family. So did we. So we decided to make a website that offered practical skills to build a way of living that could be responsive to whatever might present itself in family life.

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That way rather than needing a 'rule book' there is a sense of being equipped to deal with whatever situation is in front of you.

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