Blog Category: Building Family Relationships
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Top Tips: Best Reads to Prepare Children for a Sibling
In September 2016, parenting author and educator Maggie Dent put a post on Facebook about ...
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Ways of connecting with your children or grandchildren when you’re far away
In August 2016, parenting author and educator Maggie Dent put a post on Facebook addressing ...
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Coping as a sad, absent grandparent
A couple of months ago I wrote this blog about becoming a grandparent for the ...
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The one question mums of sons should ask
As a mother of four sons, a former boys’ basketball coach, counsellor and a secondary ...
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Expectations: a help or a hindrance?
It is that time – that once every four years time where dreams are made ...
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The things you don’t realise about being a grandparent
Recently one of my best and longest-serving girlfriends became a grandmother. I am beyond thrilled ...
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Healing our profound wound of human disconnectedness
The latest suicide figures from the ABS are alarming, worrying and hide a world full ...
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Family meetings
Technically a family operates like a small organisation, like a community or even a small ...
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A ‘good enough’ Christmas
Take a quick trip to a shopping centre around Christmas and you will likely witness frenetic rushing, ...
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The comfort of family ritual
As the end of the year comes hurtling toward us, many of us who celebrate ...
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Helping your teen girl with volatile emotions
I once shared an article on Facebook written by Susan Stiffelman called Why Is My ...
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Top 5 Tips for Today’s Parents
Recently during an interview on Channel 9 in Perth I was asked what my five ...
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The 3 Rs to family happiness: resilience, routine & relaxation
It’s something that’s easy to forget or hold on to in our busy lives, but ...
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Expectations and the inconvenient truth of parenting
One of the chapters in my book 9 Things: A back to basics guide to calm, common-sense, ...
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Love bridges: Why micro-moments of connection matter
Most parents would never question that they love their children wholeheartedly – even when their little ...
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Communication for family harmony
Every human being sees the world through their own unique lens, which is based on ...
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Buying gifts for children
Thrifty Christmas Might be the Magic Pudding When times are tight, I think it can ...