Tag Archive for: robert garrett

Empowering Our Kids For Community

Empowerment is not about giving your kids permission to do whatever they please with no consideration for others in their community.

Teaching Your Kids About Good Character

Every day, in any number of situations, our children are looking for clues about our character, watching to see if our actions line up with our words.

“Leave Them Alone and They’ll Come Home”

Should we as parents accept the inevitability of losing connection with our kids when they become teens, or can we dare to hope for something better?

4 Lessons About Parenting Teens in a Hyper-Sexualised Age

Here’s how parents can maintain healthy conversations with their teens, taken from the book, They’ll Be Okay written by psychologist, Collett Smart.

Dads & Their Teenage Daughters

A father’s role is critical in helping his daughter navigate the uncertainties of adolescence. Here are 4 insights for dads.

Teaching Teens About Healthy Disagreement

Four practical tips you can use to help young people resist the ‘for us or against us’ dichotomies and instead, engage in respectful, healthy disagreement.

The ‘Gift’ of COVID

The ‘gift of COVID’ is that many of us have experienced new and positive ways of living, thinking, working and cultivating relationships.

Social Media P Plates for Teens

Author Robert Garrett suggests looking for these four areas of competence before giving teens their ‘P Plates’ for social media.

3 Habits to Develop Healthy Parental Downtime

Parenting involves sacrifice. Whether it’s getting up early to take them to their game or going without in order to provide for them, it’s just what we do.

Perfectionism – Stealing Children’s Confidence and Responsibility?

Sometimes the obsessive tendency for things to be ‘just so’ can undermine our goal to build confidence and responsibility into our kids.

Are We Living Intentionally or Are Circumstances Dictating Our Future?

How did I get here? Is it the path I’ve chosen, or is my path being shaped by circumstances or someone else’s expectations?

Backyard BBQ calling but work is getting in the way? Let’s find our balance.

Aussie dads say that they’d like to spend more time with their kids. How do we go about achieving a better ‘life balance’? Here’s some practical solutions.

What Teens Can Learn From Making A Phone Call Instead Of Texting

56% of Australians avoid calling people, choosing instead to text or send an instant message of some kind including teens who are an even lower percentage.

Mother’s Day: The Most Important Thing a Father Can Do Is…

‘The most important thing a father can do for his children is…’ How would you finish this sentence? You may have some ideas… but this one is the best.

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.