Today’s post is my response to a reader’s email. A disclaimer up front again – I am not a teacher. The insight I provide on helping kids with their homework, in this case creative writing stories, is based on my experience and the research I have undertaken. I have read your book and you are [...]

This post is inspired by a question from a lovely reader. You can see some other answers to questions from readers here. You talk about taking the kids to swimming lessons and was wondering (a) how do you take five kids swimming?? and (b) what tips do you have to make it easier? This year [...]

Today’s post was inspired by this question from a reader: I would be very interested to know where you get the MOTIVATION to actually do what you write about. Being a mum of (only) one child, planning is not my challenge, but the ‘follow-thru’. Sometimes I just cannot be bothered, which often has consequences I [...]

Today I am answering a reader question from Graeme who was interested in managing parental disagreement – what to do if mum and dad don’t agree. My response to this topic is the focus of my first video post. If like Graeme you read Planning With Kids updates via email, you will need to click [...]

This post is part of a series where I answer questions from my readers. If you have a question that you would like me to answer, please feel free to leave it in the comments below. Other posts answering reader questions can be found by clicking here: Reader Questions. Sharon emailed me with the following [...]

This post is part of a series where I answer questions from my readers. If you have a question that you would like me to answer, please feel free to leave it in the comments below. Other posts answering reader questions can be found by clicking here: Reader Questions. Cath asked a couple of questions [...]