A post written by a concerned mother of teenage boys about girls posting inappropriate, sexual images of girls on facebook has gone viral – FYI (If you’re a teenage girl). It has sparked great controversy in the online world! Many seemed to agree that the virtue…
With Christmas approaching, it seems timely to begin a 4 part series on toys to avoid and offer some helpful alternatives. Toy shopping can be overwhelming. We are exposed to all sorts of advertising and marketing that convinces us we need to ‘spoil’ our children. Let’s…
Too many children? Which one would you like me to put back? My 15 year old nephew recently had the opportunity to meet Dick Smith. He enlightened me with all he had learnt about overpopulation. Did you know it’s irresponsibile and environmentally unsustainable to have 4 children…
I recently spoke with a school teacher who was looking forward to retiring. After a little probing she reluctantly admitted that she wasn’t enjoying teaching anymore. She said, “kids these days have little respect for adults and each other. They just aren’t very nice kids”.…
As I sit here writing this, my two boys are on ebay looking at football cards. Clearly, it wasn’t the smartest of ideas downloading the ebay app for the ipad! A minute ago they were playing educational maths games – now they are begging me…
The recent article Cool kids: no price is too high suggests that parents should take more interest in their child’s image. ”There’s been a dramatic shift in parents seeing the value in investing more money into their children’s images,” says Dean Nixon, celebrity makeup artist What ever…
Okay. I’m one of those parents who placed my firstborn son in front of educational DVD’s before he could hold his head up. I thought I was doing the right thing – making him smarter and helping him reach his potential. Oh how things change.…
I admit it. I am the mother of three incredibly spoilt children. My older boys were given some money at Christmas. I sneakily hid it so I could put in it their back accounts as they really didn’t need to go blowing it on more…