Parenting

Teaching Your Kids About Debt, Gratification & Priorities

Governments don’t provide education about responsibly managing household debt, so it’s up to us as parents to teach our children about how to manage money.

Five Things Your Kids Need to Be Spiritually Healthy

As a Christian parent, you have a responsibility to equip your children to be spiritually healthy, here are five ways!

How Can I Teach My Kids to Be Safe Without Scaring Them?

How Can I Teach My Kids to Be Safe Without Scaring Them? By Dr Justin Coulson Hi Dr Justin, we recently had a family meeting and decided on a family safe word – a word we can use in case someone other than family has to pick the kids…

Curfews: Using Limits with Teens

By: Rachel Doherty Curfews can be a useful way for parents to influence the behaviour of their teens. Especially when they’re making poor choices or hitting the party scene. Teenagers at some point will dip into the world beyond their home.…

How to Motivate Kids – and Why Rewards aren’t the Answer

How do you motivate kids? It may be one of the biggest struggles parents and teachers experience. We remind them to clean their room or do their schoolwork. They reply that it’s too hard.We cajole them to turn off their screens and play outside…

Surviving the Fortnite Craze: A Guide for Frustrated Parents

Are you tearing your hair out over your child’s Fortnite gaming habits? Is the all-consuming console game affecting your tween or teen’s mood and sleep? Taking over their social life and dragging them away from sports, homework and chores—not…

How Hugging Your Child Could Make Them Smarter

By Katrina Roe A new study of babies has found that hugging a child helps their brain grow! And the more you hug, the more it grows. The other day we had some friends round for dinner. As they were leaving, their baby asked for a cuddle.…