Helping Your Child Manage Disappointment

Disappointment can be a difficult emotion to manage, especially for parents. Nobody likes to see their child hurt or upset, and it can be challenging to help them navigate this. However, this can be an excellent opportunity to teach them… Continue Reading >

How to help children manage disappointment

The most effective way to help children manage disappointment is by building their resilience. Building resilience in children is something that should never be taken lightly when it comes to childhood development. Though childhood is often seen as a carefree… Continue Reading >

How to help your toddler adjust to life with a baby on the way

Walking along the frozen aisle at Coles, a woman stops next to us in front of the vegetables. “Oh, how far along are you?”. “7 months” I reply. She beams at my daughter looking at her suspiciously “how exciting! You’re… Continue Reading >

Will this pandemic have a lasting negative impact on our kids?

With the Coronavirus causing disrupted education, economic havoc and unprecedented lockdowns around the world it’s very easy to feel incredibly overwhelmed. Children have had a ringside seat watching their parents come to terms with school being cancelled, having to work… Continue Reading >

Helping Kids Manage Their Emotions During Lockdown

Since COVID entered our lives in early 2020 there have been a multitude of events that have caused anxiety, confusion, and numerous other emotions for our children. As our country is now being impacted by continual lock downs it can… Continue Reading >

Surviving and Thriving During Lockdowns

Life is full of challenges right now.  We are still living in a state of uncertainty which is creating significant issues for parents and children, both physically and mentally. Maintaining a happy and healthy family environment is difficult at the… Continue Reading >

Post Natal Depression and How to Help Manage the Changes

You’ve survived the pregnancy with its associated nausea, vomiting, exhaustion and backache as well as the hours of labour and finally the delivery of your baby, which may or may not have gone the way you had hoped or planned… Continue Reading >

Games List the kids will enjoy in this time of Isolation

As we are all aware, the world is in a little bit of a state now.  The Coronavirus and Covid-19 have placed the world into a spin and we are all doing our best to deal with our new reality,… Continue Reading >

5 Simple Hacks to go from Surviving to Thriving!

By Krissy Regan The Wellness Poet   I’m guilting of living in “Survival Mode”, I think many parents and chronically sleep deprived Mum’s can relate to this feeling.  Survival mode is not fun, fancy or freedom – it’s an uncomfortable… Continue Reading >

Tips For Fussy Eaters Who Eat Well at Childcare But Won’t Eat at Home | Marie-France Laval | Ep 163

Navigating behaviours and triggers of fussy eaters have long been an enigma for many parents. Frustratingly many fussy eaters can eat well at childcare, however not at home. Why is this the case? What strategies and techniques can be learnt… Continue Reading >