Talking to Teens About Mental Health: Parent Tips
Noticing changes in your teen can feel worrying and awkward to bring up. This guide shares gentle ways to start, what to say, and when it may be time to seek extra support.
Encouraging Play-Based Learning in Young Children
Play is more than just fun — it’s one of the most powerful ways children learn. Through child-led and independent play, kids build creativity, problem-solving skills, and emotional resilience. In this guide, we explore the benefits of play-based learning and offer practical tips for parents to support meaningful, developmentally rich play at home.
5 Ways to Talk to Your Kids About Bullying
Bullying can affect a child’s confidence, sense of safety, and mental health. As a parent, how you respond matters. This article explores five simple but effective ways to talk to your child about bullying—whether they’re a victim, bystander, or unsure of how to speak up. Learn how to guide these conversations with empathy, clarity, and confidence.
Overcoming School Refusal: A Parent’s Support Guide
School refusal is a child or teenager’s frequent refusal to attend school over a prolonged period of time for various reasons. This often becomes troubling for both the parent and child, so what can we do about it? Read on to find out!
Keeping the Marriage Strong After Having Children
With a myriad of new stressors and changes, the transition to parenthood is challenging. Discover how you can care for yourself, your partner, and keep your marriage strong after having children.
Supporting a Child Through a Divorce
Divorce can take a huge toll on a child. Parents play an important role and hold the responsibility in ensuring that a child’s emotional and physical needs are met during this difficult period. Here are 4 ways to support a child during a divorce.
30 Statements to Help Children Cultivate a Growth Mindset
We all have beliefs about our own abilities and potential – so do kids. These beliefs form part of our mindset, which is so powerful that they affect how we interpret our life experiences, drive our behaviours and predict our success.
Talking to Children About Loss, Death and Grief
Death can be a daunting topic to broach with children. What should you say? Should you even say it? The answer: although it may be tricky, we should speak to children about grief and loss. By allowing them to understand their emotions and validating their fears, you can help build healthy coping skills that allow them to deal with grief appropriately.
Feeding Tips to Support Your Child at Mealtimes
Mealtimes can bring both connection and stress, especially when children refuse food, resist trying new things, or want extra help eating. This article shares gentle, practical feeding tips to support your child’s relationship with food while making family meals feel calmer, more structured, and more positive.
Using a Token Economy to Support Child Behaviour
A token economy is a positive reinforcement strategy to encourage and maintain appropriate performance and behaviour, be it at home or in a classroom setting. In a token economy, if a child acts or behaves in an appropriate manner, they will be able to trade their tokens for a reward or privilege.
Positive Parenting - Behaviour Management
One way to guide your child’s behaviour so that they behave appropriately is by implementing positive behaviour management — giving attention to positive behaviours (e.g. through praises) instead of punishing them for negative behaviours. Here are some steps you can take to manage your child’s behaviour in a more positive and effective way.
Coping with the Burden of Unpaid Leave and Caregiving
Welcoming a new family member comes with a myriad of changes. Despite various initiatives, like maternity and paternity leave, unforeseen situations may crop up and parents may have to take unpaid leave for caregiving purposes. How do we better cope with caregiving? How do we handle having to take unpaid leave when it’s inevitable?
Juggling Between Motherhood and Career: An ACT Approach
Babies are a bundle of joy to the family, but it can be tough to juggle motherhood and career at the same time. Worries and problems accumulate over time and become overwhelming, especially when coupled with sleep deprivation. This can snowball into burnout if not dealt with in time.Here are some tips on how you can juggle motherhood and your career!