How to find the joy in school holidays
School holidays are fast approaching. For the kids, there have been 10 or so weeks of sport, music, schoolwork, sitting still and navigating friendships. For the parents, it’s been 10 weeks of ...
My Internet Filter Failed My Kids
Parenting with or without Parental Controls
Dear Dr Justin,
A few weeks ago we found our ten-year-old son looking at an explicit website on his iPad. He says he found it accidentally when he was ...
18 Ways to Increase Your Happiness
Behavioural scientists have spent a lot of time studying ‘happiness’. They’ve discovered that being happy elevates our wellbeing, increases our life satisfaction and gives us better health and ...
Technoference, the digital world and our kids
You know what it’s like. It’s dinnertime. You’re trying to get kids off devices, serve up food, and be available to your family. Then your phone dings or vibrates. You know it’s probably ...
How much sport is too much for our kids?
Hi Dr Justin
I have a ten-year-old daughter who is a very good swimmer and competes at state level. This year she increased her training to an hour a session, and there is pressure on her to train ...
How Play is Changing
In today’s blog I want to ask you two questions. Pretty simple ones.
First, how do your children play?
Second, how is their play different from the play you enjoyed when you were ...
7 Steps to Stressing Less in Parenting
Of all the jobs in the world, parenting must be one of the toughest, most challenging, and most confronting things we can do. Children are hard to understand, and sometimes they feel impossible to ...
Are We Over-scheduling Our Kids?
Dear Dr Justin
My kids are in a lot of after-school activities. They swim and play a musical instrument each. Two of them do drama, and all three are in Saturday sport. My husband and I are ...
Why We Should Focus On Who (Not What) Our Children Become
“I’ve got a question for you”, the cab driver stated expectantly. I was on my way to give a talk about parenting. He had asked where I was going and why, and his eyes lit up when he found out ...
