Obedience: Why Do You Have To Tell Them Five Times?
By Dr Laura Markham “In one fairly typical encounter, a father asked his eight-year-old son five times to please go take a bath or…
Parenting
The Toilet Learning Journey – Setting Your Child Up For Success
By Laura Morley If I’ve learned anything in my 13 years as a mum, it’s that the joy of parenting is found in the…
How To Cope With a Toddler and a Newborn
By Jane Frazerhurst My baby was 9 months old when I found out that I was pregnant with number two. After four years of…
Family Night: Relaxing, Communicating and Laughing Together
By Nelle Myrica Donaldson My three-year-old does not own a cell phone, which makes the rules for Family Night easy for him to follow:…
Time’s Up for Time Outs
By Sofie Thomson I’m not going to start this blog under the pretence that I have any level of love for “time outs” because…
What To Do When Motherhood Is Kicking Your Butt…
By Kimberley Newing Someone asked me recently “How the heck do you it all and make it look so easy?!” I laughed. I laughed…
5 Easy Steps For Better Self Care For Mums
By Dr. Gina Madrigrano You might think: “What does self care have to do with parenting skills”? Well it has everything to do with it….
3 MUSTS To Have In Place Before Baby Number 2, 3, 4, 5 Arrives…
By Kimberley Newing Hey mama of soon to be 2, 3, 4 or 5 kids…You’re going to freak out at least once before the…
Discipline? Absolutely, as long as it’s positive
By Bonnie Harris What does the word discipline conjure up for you? Takes you right back to childhood, right? Did you like being disciplined? I bet…
Success is in the planning…sometimes
By Lisa Cheaney- Hogan Somehow, January 2018 was 7 weeks long and now next week is March?! Am I the only one who is feeling…
Unschooling Ourselves: Re-Thinking How We Interact With Our Kids
By Amanda Sharma You’ve just given birth. You feel like your body has been turned inside out, but the joy you feel when those…
Learning to Talk to Strangers
By Jessica Rios Growing up in the 80s, the only time I recall hearing the word stranger was within a common remark made by…
Roughhousing: The Rules of the Game
By Nelle Myrica Donaldson “There’s no raspberries allowed in this fighting game!” my three-year-old calls out. “There’s no tickling in snow-fighting!” giggles the six-year-old….
3 Things To Do When You Just Can’t Take Any More
By Kimberley Newing We all have those days, weeks, months … When it all just feels too much and you want to quit, run…
12 tips for surviving plane travel with young children
By Joss Hooren Instead of feeling excited about your upcoming flight, are you worrying about how to keep the kids happy, entertained, well slept,…
If You’re Going to Buy One Parenting Book This Year, Make It This One
Dr. Laura Markham is a regular contributor to The Natural Parent Magazine, and her work has helped countless parents around the world in transitioning…
Easy ways to teach kids about emotions in daily life
By Dr Laura Markham Anthropologists say that Inuits, whose world is full of snow, have at least 50 words for variations of snow. Inuit…
Why Mothers Are Queens
By Kimberley Newing A milestone happened in our house this week. I breastfed for the last time. EVER. Our 17 month old weaned and…
10 Reasons I’m Jealous of my Husband, From a SAHM
By Jennifer Congdon Stay-At-Home Mums (SAHMs) love our jobs, don’t get me wrong. I’m sure our husbands are jealous of us, too and the…
How to Get The Kids Out the Door On Time and Still Feel Connected
By Rachel Schofield How hard we all work to get our kids out the door on time! I think just about every parent I’ve…