Looking after your Mental Health as a Parent

Looking after your Mental Health as a Parent

It’s really important to look after your emotional and mental health as a parent. You probably know how to look after your physical health (eat vegetables, wash your hands, don’t run across the road, and so on), but it’s harder to know how to look after your mental...
How to Give Feedback to Your Tweens and Teens

How to Give Feedback to Your Tweens and Teens

It’s so important to reflect on our learning experiences, and to teach this to our kids. After all, don’t you think this is what makes us human. When children take on a task and achieve it in whole or part, they learn along the way. Think back about a task or project...
Here’s how to Deal with Conflict in your Family

Here’s how to Deal with Conflict in your Family

Sometime ago, I was asked to deliver management training to a team in a local school here in Auckland NZ. The principal was having a problem with her deputy principal and staff getting along together. There was a bit of conflict happening. I’ve alway thought of...
Is Your Child Being Bullied? What Can You Do?

Is Your Child Being Bullied? What Can You Do?

Many parents worry about their kids being bullied, or if they have one with bullying tendencies what to do about it. Many people out there think that we are making too much of a fuss about it, that we should leave kids to their own devices. I tend to disagree. I...
Tips for Shifting Problem Behavior in Your Kids

Tips for Shifting Problem Behavior in Your Kids

Source: The Virtues Project Educator’s Guide by Linda Kavelin. Being a trained facilitator for the Virtues Project developed by Linda Kavelin Popov, I’m very passionate about supporting parents to raise happy, kind and responsible kiddos.  Parents are ultimately...