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With Christmas decorations all around the city and county weeks in advance, many of us parents get the same question day after day: “When is Santa coming? Is it tomorrow?” How do we help our children understand how much time is left until the ...

09 Dec 2020 at 14:27

Local News

Celebrating rights on Universal Children’s Day

Universal Children’s Day was officially celebrated on Friday, November 20, but people around the world had been holding events all this week. Universal Children’s Day marks the date in 1959 when the UN General Assembly adopted the ...

28 Nov 2020 at 15:00

Lifestyle

Positive Parenting: How to navigate the uncertainty of the times

This article is the first in a series that focuses on your child’s transition back to school. The series will run throughout August and into September. Articles over the next few weeks will further explore some of the topics ...

14 Aug 2020 at 10:50

National News

Positive Parenting: Encouragement v Praise

In most parenting literature today, you will find the words ‘encouragement’ and ‘praise’ together, as if they were the same thing. Rudolf Dreikurs, a pioneer of democratic parenting, says they are not. It is an area of ...

08 Oct 2021 at 13:09

Lifestyle

Positive Parenting: Support positive mental health for young minds

One of the greatest challenges for parents is making sure our children are happy and confident in themselves and able to deal with the challenges they face in the wider world. When they are home, we can protect them ...

04 Oct 2020 at 13:10

National News

Positive Parenting: Helping teenagers handle peer pressure

The urge for children to conform to their peers is a normal stage in their pre-teenager and teenager years. At this stage, children start looking to their peers to help them figure out what may feel like everything ...

17 Sept 2021 at 16:41

National News

Positive Parenting: Children and grief

Death is an unavoidable part of life and not something that we can protect children from. However, we can help children understand the concept of death, their reactions to grief and how as the adults in their ...

12 Nov 2021 at 16:00

National News

Positive Parenting: Supporting your child through bullying

Bullying is a common enough word these days – but what does it actually mean? Although it is very common and can happen anywhere, we don’t always see or identify bullying soon enough. Generally, bullying ...

19 Nov 2021 at 11:12

National News

Positive Parenting: Encouraging communication between parents and teenagers

Most misunderstandings are usually because of poor communication. Communicating well between family members leads to less arguments which results in increased cooperation and stronger connection among ...

07 Jan 2022 at 16:26

National News

Positive Parenting: Let’s play pretend!

Have you ever watched your little one pick-up a block, put it to their ear and babble into it? Your child is using this block as a phone, this is pretend or imaginative play! One of the many ways ...

16 Jan 2022 at 13:19

National News

Positive Parenting: Using music and art to promote wellbeing

“Parenthood is the only place you can experience heaven and hell at the same time.” – Anonymous Are you nodding your head when you read this quote? Parenthood can be hard. If you are pregnant, ...

28 Oct 2021 at 16:59

Features

Positive Parenting: Pressing the pause button

Do you ever find yourself on the way to collect the children from school or driving home from work with the endless tick, tick, tick of your endless to do list churning through your mind - ...

02 Feb 2022 at 12:25

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