Our Family Holiday in Bali
When it comes to holidays, I’m normally a do it yourself kind of guy.
I’m big on exploration, activity, and getting off the beaten track. I want to go my own way. For me it’s all about ...
Screen Time and Our Teens’ Mental Health Crisis
In a 2018 survey half of the parents questioned believed that smart phone usage negatively affected their child’s mental health. And nearly half thought their child was actually addicted to the ...
Six Ways To Be The Best Parent You Can Be
Think of the times that your parenting has been its best. Those times where you were unconditionally there for your child and it felt “right”.
When I ask parents to tell me about those times, ...
Changing the Time-out Perspective
Time-out is still the most often recommended form of discipline. Paediatricians, parenting experts and child development experts continue to recommend it...
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 ...
