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.
Helping Your Child ‘Get Ahead’ May Actually Put Them Way Behind
We’re deluded about how the world works, and often fall into the trap of believing simple, narrow stories.
We’re deluded about how the world works, and often fall into the trap of believing simple, narrow stories.
Parent or Friend. One, the Other or Both?
This is a question that many of us wrestle with, which to be, or can you be both?
This is a question that many of us wrestle with, which to be, or can you be both?
A Challenge Parents Never Overcome
Maybe we’ll have it all figured out by the time we’re grandparents. Maybe.
Maybe we’ll have it all figured out by the time we’re grandparents. Maybe.
I’ve Only Got Six Summers Left With My Son
Do you remember the summer holidays as a kid?
Do you remember the summer holidays as a kid?
Our Kids Need to Be Bored to Breed Their Creativity
What can you do if you want to help your kids be more creative, so they have a solid foundation on which to build a fulfilling life?
What can you do if you want to help your kids be more creative, so they have a solid foundation on which to build a fulfilling life?
When Routines for Your Kids Don’t Work, You Might Be the Problem
Repetition, new ways to practice and patience though are some of the fundamentals of learning anything.
Repetition, new ways to practice and patience though are some of the fundamentals of learning anything.