What is EQ? How Can It Lead Children To Better Individual and Societal Outcomes? | Stephanie Pinto | Ep 177

  Every parent, and caregiver, want to give their children the best chance to succeed in life. A crucial ingredient in experiencing a joyful happy life lies within the quality of our relationships, fuelled with emotion. Many psychologists over time… Continue Reading >

How to Make Working from Home and Isolating at Home with Kids on the Spectrum Easier

According to Kathrine Peereboom, mother of three severely autistic boys and founder of Spectrum Support, a leading charity focused on providing autism awareness, support, education and training – parents all over the country are working from home and isolated with kids with autism. “Parents who have… Continue Reading >

Sleep Associations

Are you the connection? Recently I had an email from a desperate mum that needed sleep. Her toddlers, about a year apart, were doing their best to keep their parents from getting more than a couple of hours of sleep… Continue Reading >

5 tips to make homeschooling easier

Whether you have chosen to homeschool or have had this lifestyle thrust upon you there are strategies that will help you along the way. As a parent who has homeschooled since day 1 (and ran a family daycare before that)… Continue Reading >

Advice to Parents Homeschooling their Kids

As Australian families grapple with the demands of homeschooling amid the coronavirus crisis, after-hours doctors are offering advice on how to maintain a healthy routine for kids. House Call Doctor is Queensland’s largest after-hours medical service and Clinical Director Dr… Continue Reading >

How to Cope with Reminders of your Pregnancy and Child Loss | Amelia Walker and Chris Barnes from Gidget Foundation | Ep 169

   The loss of a baby or a child is undoubtedly the most devastating, heartbreaking experience anyone could possibly endure. It’s common for many parents to experience intense and profound feelings of despair, loss, and heartache and is left… Continue Reading >

5 Books for the end of the day

I can distinctly remember sometimes experiencing the tight feeling in my chest as I contemplated reading at night to my children. Our eldest was like a helium balloon and it took all my energy to get her off the ceiling… Continue Reading >

Your Child’s Future is Built on the Foundations You Help Them Build Today

by Dr. Scott Zarcinas My youngest daughter recently played her first game of soccer for her high school. Surprisingly, she wanted to play goalkeeper, the position nobody else in the team wanted to play. As the last line of defence,… Continue Reading >

Why always focusing on your children can lead to unhappiness

We know….you love your children more than anything in this world. That fierce, protective, forever love where you would go to the ends of the Earth and back for them without hesitation. The kind of love that you didn’t know… Continue Reading >

Freaky clean parent, fussy eater child?

“I did not like mess so I stopped him from feeding himself, is this a problem, is this why he is such a fussy eater, asked Rebecca? Take a deep breath. It is unlikely that this is turning your child… Continue Reading >