This is the second guest post from my dear friend Annie. If you missed her first post, it was fantastic and received great feedback, you can read it here Discipline Strategies – …
Spending Individual Time With The Kids
Today’s post was inspired by Polly at I was just thinking who asked how I managed to spend individual time with my children. When I was halfway through my pregnancy with my …
Discipline Strategies – Helping Boys With Their Temper
Today’s post on discipline is actually a guest post from a very dear friend of mine Annie. I met Annie when she moved to Melbourne and joined our local playgroup. We were …
Moving With Kids
Today we welcome another lovely friend of mine, Catherine Sangster to Planning With Kids. Catherine has three beautiful girls, two at school and the youngest who has just turned one. I have …
Alternative To Time Out
Last week I wrote about some suggested Discipline Strategies from the Tripe P Parenting. I noted in this post that early in my parenting I had tried time out, but found that …
Discipline Strategies
I have many parents come to my blog looking for answers on their children’s behaviour. They tend to land on my posts about: Characteristics of Two (and a half) Year Old Behavior …
Tips For Visiting The Art Gallery With Kids
Art galleries provide a wonderful opportunity for little minds! Through art, it can inspire their own creativity, make them think about what they are seeing and encourage an appreciation of beauty. And …
Talking With Your Children
Last week I reviewed the What’s Happening to Our Boys? AT RISK How the new technologies, drugs and alcohol, peer pressure and porn affect our boys. It certainly provided me with some …
Interview With Maggie Hamilton Author of “What’s Happening to Our Boys?”
Having four sons, the title alone was always going to draw me to this book What’s Happening to Our Boys? AT RISK How the new technologies, drugs and alcohol, peer pressure and …
Reading, Learning and Education
Reading and all things literacy have been a big focus in our house over the last month or so. This focus has permeating my blog reading and as such this month’s highlights …
Book Review: Pregnancy and Birth – The Essential Australian Checklists by Karen Sullivan
Where was this book when I had my first baby 11 years ago? Pregnancy and Birth – The Essential Australian Checklists by Karen Sullivan has made its way to the top of …
Book Review: Your Pregnancy Week By Week By Professor Lesley Regan
Professor Lesley Regan is the head of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at St Mary’s Hospital, Imperial College, London (the first woman in England to hold such a position). She is …
My First Room To Grow Segment
Over the last couple of months I have been involved in filming segments for the parenting television show Room to Grow. This is the third series that they have created and in …
Learning Differences – What Is Dyslexia?
This is a guest post from Mary Mountstephen, author of A Practical Guide to Support Children with Dyspraxia and Neurodevelopmental Delay and A Practical Guide to Support Children with Speech and Language …
Change Of Season – Children’s Clothes Reorganisation
This is an update of a post I wrote back in the first couple of months of blogging, but it is still such a handy tip that I thought I would talk …
Parenting – iPods, sibling fighting, responsibility and more!
For those of you new to Planning With Kids, once a month I feature my highlights from the web. Often they are based around a theme, like today’s collection which features resources …
What Bothers You About Me?
Image by trekkyandy This was the question that I asked my 11 year old a couple of months ago. What bothers you about me? It was a confronting thing to do and …
The Bridge Of Adolescence
In August 2008 I posted a series of discussions on He’ll Be Ok: Growing Gorgeous Boys Into Good Men by Celia Lashlie. In part 2 of my discussion, I noted the stage …