Tag Archives: parenting

Raising brave girls

There is something about raising girls that induces equal parts fear and worry into the [...read more]

Do not tell your child they are fat

Parents, please do not tell your child they are fat. I recently had a mother [...read more]

Dads are just as vital as mums for kids

There's a conversation we need to have with our sons — and it’s not about [...read more]

Teens need love, not war

We seem to suffer from a collective amnesia about what we were like ourselves at [...read more]

The right way for dads to parent teen girls

Despite the popular belief that it is mums who fear losing their bond with their [...read more]

Ladies, teach your daughters to say ‘No!’

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

Porn crackdown: It’s not an invasion of privacy. It’s parenting

Further to last week’s post on an alarming new type of lewd cyber scavenger hunt, [...read more]

I gave a taxi driver a $50 tip. And it felt amazing.

The following post was first published by News Corp’s  online opinion site RendezView. I was also [...read more]

The perfect parent is a foolish myth

This post was first published in The Daily Telegraph, December 26th, 2014.  Educator, author, media [...read more]

Gratitude at Christmas – get some!

This post was originally shared by Mamamia.  For three little kids in Utah, the Grinch [...read more]