The word patience comes from the Latin patienta, literally to endure suffering.
Routines That Waste You the Most Precious Time
We build up our ideas and mental models with repetition.
We build up our ideas and mental models with repetition.
Why You’re Finding It So Hard To Be Focused Right Now
If you’re struggling to focus, this will help you understand why, so you’re taking the first step to fixing it.
If you’re struggling to focus, this will help you understand why, so you’re taking the first step to fixing it.
A Question That Will Make Parenting in a Pandemic Feel Easier.
Whys and shoulds stop you from being the person your children love.
Whys and shoulds stop you from being the person your children love.
A Summary of All the Pandemic Parenting Advice
Hold a routine, set boundaries flexibly.
Hold a routine, set boundaries flexibly.
The Tough Choice of Being a Rainy Day Parent.
When you’re out and it’s wet, or when you’re in and you want to go out and it’s raining, you have a choice.
When you’re out and it’s wet, or when you’re in and you want to go out and it’s raining, you have a choice.
‘I Was Never Good Enough for You’. Something No Parent Wants to Hear.
Life is about learning. When you’re young, learning is your work.
Life is about learning. When you’re young, learning is your work.
Are You in Danger of Over-Parenting?
We don’t want our child to suffer, so we sort things out for them.
We don’t want our child to suffer, so we sort things out for them.
Living in Lockdown With Busy Working Parents Might Set Unhealthy and Potentially Disastrous Mindsets in Our Kids
Our kids might not want to burden us with their suffering as they struggle through friendship problems, bullying, breakups or struggles with school work.
Our kids might not want to burden us with their suffering as they struggle through friendship problems, bullying, breakups or struggles with school work.
How Parenting Makes You More, and Less Productive, and What You Can Do About It.
I learned how to manage my energy and use it at the right time for the right task.
I learned how to manage my energy and use it at the right time for the right task.
We Learn to Love People From the Outside In. With Our Children, It’s the Other Way Around.
Over time they pick up traits that you may or may not like, but you still love them.
Over time they pick up traits that you may or may not like, but you still love them.
How Do You Celebrate Your Children?
Celebration is a form of positive reinforcement, it’s a way of encouraging, validating and incentivising.
Celebration is a form of positive reinforcement, it’s a way of encouraging, validating and incentivising.
I Used to Be an Angry Dad
Your impatience and anger are your responsibility.
Your impatience and anger are your responsibility.
Don’t Be a ‘Real’ Man, Be a Better Man
The idea in your head is likely to be a blend of what the healthy version of masculinity, and the traditional, let’s call it ‘real man’, unhealthy one.
The idea in your head is likely to be a blend of what the healthy version of masculinity, and the traditional, let’s call it ‘real man’, unhealthy one.
The Boring Things to Get Sorted Early as a Parent
Three buckets of boring, but essential things to get sorted before a birth turns you into family.
Three buckets of boring, but essential things to get sorted before a birth turns you into family.
Are Your Comparisons Serving You Well?
We compare our kids and our parenting to others.
We compare our kids and our parenting to others.