My 7 yr-old Only Eats Chips
Dealing with a fussy eater can be a challenge. Poor eating habits in middle childhood and the tween years tend to be long-lasting. We need to take them seriously. Dear Dr Justin
My beautiful ...
Social Skills Are The Secret To Stronger Emotional Immunity
This blog is in partnership and sponsored by Nutricia. Social skills are a critically important component of strengthening our children’s emotional immunity to life’s big challenges, and for ...
My Annual Review – 2020 Edition
For the past two years I’ve written a behind-the-scenes, take-a-peek-under-the-hood kind of annual review so you can see what it is like to be both immersed in talking about having a happy family ...
My Favourite Books from 2020
I’m a pretty keen reader. After being inspired by Todd Kashdan’s annual book review, I started my own last year. A few things to be aware of before reading. I don’t care what year the ...
Easy Tips And Tricks To Build Stronger Emotional Immunity In Children
This blog is in partnership and sponsored by Nutricia. Ensuring our children have great nutrition allows us to help them be strong and healthy. As parents, we encourage them to be active, get ...
Boosting Your Child’s Physical and Psychological Immunity
This blog is in partnership and sponsored by Nutricia. If you have a young child you know that it’s nearly impossible to keep them from touching, smelling and licking nearly everything they come ...
Mental Health Consequences of Hard Border Closures on FIFO Children
In March 2020 Western Australia shut its borders. While there may be well-meaning policies behind the border closures, there’s no escaping the fact that this decision has irrevocably changed ...
What to Do When Parents and Grandparents Disagree
In Australia, two-thirds of parents are both working and raising young children. And many of those families are turning to grandparents to fill the vital role as carers for their kids. In fact, almost...
Isolation is getting harder for our children. Here’s how to help.
Though families have felt palpable relief as restrictions have started to ease across the rest of the nation, our Victorian children are struggling more and more to follow the rules still in place. ...
Having Parents in Love Is Great for Your Kids.
Being in love feels amazing. And it’s incredibly good for you. New research shows having parents in love is also incredibly good for our kids.
As humans we love love. We crave love and affection, ...
