Research shows families break up far more often around this time of year leaving parents and especially children devastated. What should be the happiest and most exciting time of the year for children often ends with sadness, conflict and confusion. The reason this happens so often around Christmas is the end of the year is often a time of reflection and people question their past year and query if what [...]
What Everyone Should Know… About How To Make Your New Year’s Resolutions Stick! The New Year is the time we reassess our position and make a committed effort to change or improve ourselves or life. Early in the new year is the time when we can look at past issues and decide we will no longer tolerate the same behaviours of others or even ourselves. The New Year is a [...]
Interview on Radio 2GB speaking about Xmas - and how to survive that interesting Family Christmas
So many parents are now taking on the role as a Step Parent. With this new role can come confusion and even at times hostilities from the children. How do we find a balance and settle into our new role? How to help positively shape your new step-parenting role? Unfortunately, it usually does not work out at all like the old TV program of the Brady Bunch. Following the steps [...]
Radio Interview on 4BC speaking about raising our beautiful daughters and how it can sometimes be hard to let them go to live their own life.
Research shows the highest number of family breakdowns occur around Christmas time. Interview on 2GB to help avoid this breakdown at the most important family time of the year, especially for the children.
Proven Advice on How to Start Your Child at School Tear & Fear Free How to get your children prepared for school https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVEX6nMP3VA • Children often come from a preschool or day care centre with limited numbers of little children and limited size of area • When starting school they are mixing with many much bigger children and a much larger area, they can feel lost and overwhelmed. • Have [...]
How to write a Successful Resume I have been an employer for almost three decades. I have seen hundreds of resumes come across my desk for a variety of different jobs. I remain concerned that so many of these resumes have one thing in common – they are simply bad. So here are a few tips to distinguish yourself from the rest of the crowd in a bid to be [...]
By Dr Karen Phillip What do we do as parents when mum and dad seem to have different rules, boundaries and ideas about how to raise the children? When one parent is relaxed allowing the child to do what they wish and the other parent wishes to raise their child with clear boundaries and consequences, hoping they learn to conform and fit in with society expectations? This is a common [...]
Could we all benefit from Parenting Lessons? A UK professor has called for all parents to be offered state funded classes in how to bring up their families by asking could we all benefit from Parenting Lessons? In an interview with the Telegraph, Prof John Ashton, President of the UK Faculty of Public Health, said "We need to give children a good start in life. Parenting is the most important [...]
