At the end of year I run a reader survey. I find the feedback I receive an essential tool in helping me plan the content for the following year and working out …
Lola Berry’s Lemon Pie Bites + A Challenge For February
Today’s amazing recipe is from Lola Berry who is an ambassador for Febfast. If you are not familiar with Febfast, it started as a challenge for you to take a break from …
Weekend Reading 6th Dec 2013
My goal for weekend reading is to finish a book I started last week! I will let you know how I go. Here is some online reading for you this weekend: Butter …
Weekend Reading 22nd Nov 2013
Thank you for the feedback on the last weekend reading post. I am going to trial these fortnightly and see how we go! Top tips on how to choose a family friendly …
Parenting Tips For Teenagers Vol 4 – Pragmatism and Patience
This is part of my monthly series on Parenting Teenagers. Almost five years ago I wrote a series of posts reviewing the excellent book by Celia Lashlie, Growing gorgeous boys into good …
How To Get Kids To Eat?
This post is part of the Family Eating series. How To Get Kids To Eat? This is a very common question I receive in emails from readers, so I thought I would …
Low Carb Lunch Ideas with Cruskits + $100 Coles Voucher Giveaway
This post is sponsored by Nuffnang and Arnott’s. Since the start of 2012 I have been attempting to reduce my carb in take. I don’t think I will ever be a …
How Much Do You Spend On Food?
This is the question I have been asked many times already this year in emails by readers. I thought instead of looking at what I spend as my circumstance and family set …
Monthly Goal Review – Set Your Weekly Plan
So one month in, how are you now traveling with your goals? Data from the Planning With Kids survey (more on this to come in another post) found that 41% of readers …
Organisation Inspiration To Kick Start 2013
How are you traveling a week or so into your new year’s resolutions? One of the most common resolutions I hear people make (me included!) is to get more organised, so today’s …
Achieving Your Goals – Group Support
This month and for the rest of the year I am trying something different for my monthly goals review. In the last PWK Newsletter I asked readers if anyone wanted to join …
Quotes To Inspire and Motivate
This page is a work in progress, where I add quotes aimed to inspire and motivate me and hopefully others, in their journey whether it be looking after their family or achieving …
Can You Help Me With My Biggest Struggles?
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 …
10 Things I Have Learnt About Year 7 And Year 7 Boys This Year
Our son started secondary school this year, which in Victoria starts at year 7. This year has seen as big of a learning curve for me, as it has been for my …
Looking After Mum – and some gifts to do it with!
This give away has now closed and the winner was Kim! Thanks for visiting Planning With Kids! This is the last post in the Motherhood series and it is from Christie Nicholas, …
Monthly Review, September 2011
Heading towards the warmer months now in the southern hemisphere – love it! Review of key tasks for September Work on saying “no”. Better than before, but still requiring work. I had …
Motivation In Motherhood
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 …
Slowing Down With Better Time Management
Each month I bring together a collection of posts on a theme. This month’s theme is on time management. But not managing your time to cram more into your days, using time …