Parenting

Q&A: Preparing Your Kids for a Long-Distance Move

August 17, 2018 beitsafedaniel

How can parents help kids adjust to a cross-country move? In her book After the Boxes are Unpacked, author Susan Miller suggests several ways of helping your kids make the transition as smoothly as possible.

Parenting

Parental Sarcasm Is No Joke

August 14, 2018 beitsafedaniel

When I was 11 years old, a teacher called our house to deliver some exceptional news. She told my mother that I qualified to be placed in a class for gifted students. My mother replied, “Him? He can’t even find his shoes in the morning!”

Parenting

Parenting on the Same Page

August 7, 2018 beitsafedaniel

When our partner or spouse suggests we’re doing it wrong, it can feel like a personal attack. These 3 tips can help you get onto the same page without the friction.

Parenting

Is Loyalty Dead? Family Life in an Unfaithful World

July 31, 2018 Digital Team

Loyalty seems a discarded value in the 21st century world. But what if it’s essential to good family functioning and effective parenting?

Parenting

Trust God and Not a Parenting Formula

July 30, 2018 Digital Team

Thou shalt make your children eat broccoli. Thou shalt not give your child an unsterilised dummy. Thou shalt let your teen sleep in on Saturdays. I've searched the Bible from cover to cover and never found specific parenting advice like this.

Parenting

Banana Teething Rusks

July 26, 2018 Digital Team

By making your baby's own healthy teething rusks, you can skip the refined sugars, gluten, flavours or additives that can be found in some commercially made rusks.

Parenting

How to Tell It’s Time for Kids to Quit Sport: 10 Helpful Signs

July 20, 2018 Digital Team

Use these signs to start a conversation and even to prepare yourself. When kids quit a sport, parents go through change too.

Parenting

Little Things That Make a Big Difference to the Mental Health of Young People

July 16, 2018 Digital Team

Know a young person in the grip of depression, anxiety or another mental health issue? Here are some little things you can do today to build that young person up.

Parenting

Mending Bridges After a Fight with the Kids: 10 Tips for Parents

July 11, 2018 Digital Team

When there’s a battle of wills between parent and child, the adult is meant to be the one who manages their emotions. But parents are humans too, so how do you patch things up, after losing your cool with the kids?