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Tips for maintaining harmony in a large family

Tips for maintaining harmony in a large family

Thanks to all those who shared and commented on my post about feeding teenagers. I had a number of readers email me asking questions on how we make all five kids still …

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Tips to help keep teenagers well fed

Tips to help keep teenagers well fed

A very common question I get is how do you keep teenagers well fed? And I understand why this question is asked! With five kids now aged 24, 21, 19, 16 and …

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Tips and tools for helping kids with their homework

Tips and tools for helping kids with their homework (but not doing it for them!)

Today’s post answers reader questions on the topic of helping kids with their homework . You can read previous answers to readers’ questions here. It must be the time of year for it …

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Talking with teenagers

Talking with teenagers

While this post is called talking with teenagers it really should be called listening to and reading teenagers! In the PWK survey, the topic of teenagers was a prominent answer to the …

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How to support your teenagers

How to support your teenagers

As a parent, supporting our teenagers can be a challenging task. Teenagers are wonderful but they also come with a big dose of attitude, they know pretty much everything, they can be …

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Adjusting to the stages of family life

Adjusting to the stages of family life

I love the ages the kids are now. I love seeing them grow up to be good people who are contributing positively to the world around them. I love the in-depth conversations …

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Supporting your VCE student in a COVID interrupted year

Supporting your VCE student in a COVID interrupted year

Our daughter is our third child to work her way through the Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE). VCE is the certificate that the majority of students in Victoria receive on satisfactory completion …

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Why First-borns Rule the World and Later-borns Want to Change It - excerpt

Five strategies for parenting, working or living with youngest-borns

Why First-borns Rule the World and Later-borns Want to Change It was one of the first books that I reviewed on this blog (you can read it here). A key takeaway from …

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Reader questions - teenagers

Reader questions – teenagers

Today’s post answers reader questions on the topic of parenting issues. You can read previous answers to readers’ questions here. As I noted last week, when answering reader questions I try to offer …

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11 unique Christmas gift ideas for Aussie teens

11 unique Christmas gift ideas for Aussie teens

This post is part of my 2020 Christmas series. Click here to find other posts in the series. This post on unique Christmas gift ideas for Aussie teens is aimed at older …

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Books-for-12-14-year-olds

15 new books for 12-14 year olds

I am super excited to be able to publish this excellent list of books for 12-14 year olds from best selling Australian author Allison Tait. As Allison notes below this is an …

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Helping your child with mental health issues – one parent’s story

Having a child with mental health issues is a huge challenge for any parent. There is no manual or guide book to take you step by step through what you will need …

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Book review – The Modern Parent – Raising a Great Kid in the Digital World

I sincerely wish I had The Modern Parent – Raising a Great Kid in the Digital World available to me to read about seven years ago. Our eldest child was 13 then …

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10 Christmas gift ideas for older teenagers - Australia

Christmas gift ideas for older teenagers

Older teenagers can be a hard to buy for group if you don’t want to buy them some sort of gift card or give them money. These things are of course great …

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VCE subject selection – info and tips for parents

VCE subject selection – info and tips for parents

If you didn’t study yourself under the VCE structure (I didn’t!) there can be quite a bit to learn as a parent of a child going into years 11 and 12. To …

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Managing new stages with older kids

Today’s post answers a reader question. You can read previous answers to readers’ questions here. How do you handle the next phase of life ie kids getting older and transitioning from Primary to …

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How to entice older kids away from screens

Today’s post is from Bron from the great new site Mumlyfe, which is a parenting site for mums of older kids. I have known Bron for many years and she has a fabulous …

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Teenage girls and social media

  Today’s post is from the wonderful Martine Oglethorpe of The Modern Parent. Martine is an educator, counsellor and speaker who specialises in the area of technology and the family. She has a …

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