Parents

Despite the popular belief that it is mums who fear losing their bond with their teen daughter, there are plenty of dads seeking deeper connections too.

If you have a teen, it’s highly likely that at some stage they have been sent a nude image.

I vote to eliminate the following phrases…

What’s the one word we need to teach our daughters to be more comfortable saying?

Tears don’t mean men are weak; it shows they have a heart.

Further to last week’s post on an alarming new type of lewd cyber scavenger hunt, I thought I’d share this Opinion piece by author, columnist, journalist, semi-retired academic and social…

The following post was the lead Opinion piece in the Daily Telegraph 30/0/16. In it, I discuss a game teens in the Newcastle area are playing. It may shock you.…

This post was originally published by The Daily Telegraph 16/7/16 and online at RendezView. Since when have the final years of school transformed into a blood sport, apropos The Hunger…

“Hide your daughters.” “I’m only here for the ladies.” “Stud Muffin.” You might expect to see these kind of slogans brandished across a T-shirt worn by Benny Hill or Hugh…

Want to help your children succeed? Then focus on their mistakes. As adults, the single biggest mistake we make is our carefully staged, micromanaged, Instagram-filtered focus on perfection. We’ve created…

Regular readers will know I have spent the past six months as a volunteer Board Director for a new women’s shelter that is opening in Sydney’s northwest, The Sanctuary. Like…

It’s the deceptively unhelpful piece of advice that every well-intentioned adult has at one point issued to a child: “You should be friends with everybody!” Admit it — who among…

In the United States, the entire month of February is devoted to Teen Domestic Violence Awareness. Here? The dating violence young people experience remains a silent epidemic. But the uncomfortable…

This post was first published by RendezView, 31/1/16 Laptop? Check. Lunch box? Check. Prozac? Check. For more and more young people, the preparation for back to school this year will…

This post was first published in the Daily Telegraph and shared online at RendezView 4/1/16. Thanks to the “every child gets a medal” approach to raising children, many researchers argue…

The following article was originally published on News Corp’s popular online opinion site, RendezView. Holy Boycotts, Batman! Just when you thought it was safe to send your little one off…

The following post was first published by News Corp’s online opinion site RendezView. I was also asked to discuss my work on installing gratitude in young people on Radio National’s…

I recently posted the following on my Facebook page. It quickly attracted over a hundred shares so I thought it worth sharing with you here too. Sometimes I see things…

What is the one thing teen boys say they wish adults better understood about their lives? Forget raging hormones, academic angst and peer pressure. When my team and I run…

The following post was first published by the Daily Telegraph newspaper 2/1/15. I’ll let you in on a little secret. Princesses? They are often far more resilient than we give…

This post was first published in The Daily Telegraph, December 26th, 2014. Educator, author, media commentator, cause for great concern. It seems at various stages in my career I’ve been…

This post was originally shared by Mamamia. For three little kids in Utah, the Grinch has just stolen their Christmas. And the Grinch? It’s Mum. Fed up with her family…

This month’s issue of Good Health magazine features insights with various parenting experts, including me! Others interviewed include Dr Michael Carr-Gregg, Dr Tim Hawkes and Andrew Fuller ( Andrew and…

I’m incredibly excited to introduce you today to my fourth book. Gratitude – A positive new approach to raising thankful kids will be the first in a series I am…