Over the last couple of years I have written a post on how I am finding family life, now that our family is complete. The previous posts have been: Late 2009 – Does It Really Get Harder?????. I contemplate comments from other parents with older kids who suggest that it actually gets harder as the [...]

Today’s post is from Dr Brenda Heyworth (B.Med. F.R.A.N.Z.C.P).  Heyworth has specialised in child and adolescent psychiatry for 11 years, and has developed the ‘Jungle’ analogy for children’s emotions and behaviour that has implications for understanding the behaviour of us all. Dr Heyworth is a frequent speaker at local and state government child behaviour workshops [...]

Thanks to everyone who left questions for Pinky, winners of the double passes to the Baby & Toddler Show in Melbourne (30 March to 1 April) have been notified. Thanks also to Pinky Mackay for taking the time to personally answer these questions and sharing her wisdom – I am most appreciative and hoping it [...]

In the survey in December I asked you to tell me what was currently your biggest struggle with family life. The range of struggles was vast and I have factored these issues into my content plan to cover many of these topics this year. Some of which I have already done like the issue of [...]

Pinky Mackay is appearing at this year’s Baby & Toddler Show in Melbourne (30 March to 1 April, more details at the end of the post). Pinky Mackay is a best-selling baby care author with four titles published by Penguin including Sleeping Like a baby, 100 Ways to Calm the Crying, Toddler Tactics and Parenting [...]

Our eldest heads back to school today and the primary school kids start back at the end of this week. Quite sad to see the end of summer holidays. So as the kids head back to school, in today’s post I have a collection of resources that parents can use to help support their kids [...]