Image Source Gardens are fantastic. A beautiful place to enjoy your morning coffee, to entertain friends, to relax at the end of the day or to play with the kids. If you’ve ever lived without one, you’ll know how much you missed having your own outdoor space. However, one thing people find difficult is creating… Read More Creating a Garden the Whole Family Can Enjoy
There are numerous benefits of being online for children, like easy access to tons of resources with educational and entertaining content. But there are also numerous threats, like data snoops, hacker attacks, sexting and various sites, luring teenagers to porn, gambling and malicious sites. Here are seven easy steps to protect your child from these threats: 1. Talk to your kids. Start… Read More How To Protect Your Child Online In 7 Easy Steps
Parenting is never easy – that much almost goes without saying. With all the daily joys, parenting tends to involve constantly questioning yourself, paranoia, fear, battles with fussy eating, consoling tears over their shots, and concern for the future in a way you didn’t understand prior to your child being born. While it’s never an… Read More When Your Baby Is Suddenly A Teenager
Children and picky eating: they go hand in hand. First and foremost, if your child is a picky eater and straight up refuses to touch anything that is remotely healthy, then you can rest assured that it is a common problem that nearly all parents face at some point or another. However, this is not… Read More How To Win Over Stubborn Children With Healthy Options
With only a couple of weeks until our children go back to school for a new year, it is time to start thinking of what you need to buy and get organised for the school year ahead. After having spent eighteen years doing the yearly back to school preparations with our three boys, I will… Read More 12 Back To School Hints and Tips
It’s that time of year again – the last few weeks of the summer holidays. Yes, we love having our children home with us, spending quality time together is important, but after a few weeks it can all get a little bit too much. If you are sick of heading out to crazy play centres… Read More Ideas For Keeping The Kids Occupied These Holidays
Owning your own pool is a great luxury. Being able to cool off in your backyard anytime without having to go anywhere can make you feel like a king. Although there is a long list of benefits associated with having a pool, one of the most important considerations that you should be aware of… Read More Better Safe than Sorry: Is It Ever ‘Too Early’ To Teach Your Child Pool Safety?
How To Motivate Your Children To Learn Learning can be stressful for children, especially when feeling pressured to achieve high marks. Kids often lack the motivation to study when they become easily distracted, bored, or embarrassed to make mistakes. This eventually leads to a feeling helplessness with an ‘I give up’ mentality when studying gets… Read More How To Motivate Your Children To Learn
If you’re anything like us, you will have a full diary this time of year…. there are the end of year parties, catch up’s, Christmas shopping (with kids!), the children’s concerts and parties, planning for next years school/ kinder year, Christmas carols and associated Christmas activities. Then there is the planning of Christmas day;… Read More WSS Christmas: How To Maintain Your Sanity in the Silly Season
Do you have a little one with a birthday coming up soon? Maybe they’ve already begged you to have a party for their birthday this year, and they want to invite every single one of their friends. Maybe you’re tearing your hair out at the prospect! You can’t fit about thirty 5 year olds in… Read More Taking The Chaos Out Of Kids Parties
