Is your teen a screen addict?

August 31, 2016

The irony of blogging about this subject is not lost on us. We sit here, somewhat addicted to screen time ourselves, and begin to write about why we should really be ‘de-teching’. And yet that appears to be the conundrum of the modern world. So how much is too much when it comes to technology use in the home? That’s about as easy […]

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Which Mom/Mum Are You?

August 28, 2016

So this week was one of those weeks when two great parenting stories landed straight in my lap. No Facebook trolling, no researching, just some real time interactions featuring two teens from two different families. On meeting a girlfriend for coffee the other morning she arrived frustrated and exhausted having only just survived the first week back at school. […]

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Behold the "Snow Plow" Parent

August 26, 2016

We have to confess that the term “Snow Plow” parent isn’t ours. We came across this description provided by a fellow reader in response to the article Have American Parents Got it All Backwards? by Christina Gross-Loh that appeared in the Huffington Post in 2014. It recently popped into our Facebook feed and as per usual we felt […]

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Millennials Show Us What ‘Old’ Looks Like

August 24, 2016

We stumbled across this great video on You Tube and couldn’t help but have a laugh. We were particularly amused by old being depicted as ’50’ and using a flip phone.  It was heart- warming to observe the perspective shift over the course of the experiment. Perhaps ‘old’ isn’t so old after all. We thought about shooting our […]

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Words for teenagers

August 22, 2016

The following article, entitled Words for teenagers appeared in the Huffington Post in August 2012.  It was written by John Tapene, a school principal in New Zealand after hearing some wise words form a judge who regularly dealt with troubled teens. It cuts right to the jugular in terms of giving our kids some straight up advice about […]

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A School Answering Machine "Says it how it is!"

August 16, 2016

Is it just us, or do Australians have a knack for “pulling no punches” when it comes to a dishing out a dose of reality? A high school in North Queensland recently changed their school answering machine, giving parents a whole new perspective on what the school would and would not do in ensuring that students had […]

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We should teach our children how to fail

August 16, 2016

We love it when we come across a great article from the ‘motherland’ aka Australia.  Every now and then these absolute gems come across our path and we feel compelled to share. This article, entitled ‘We should teach our children how to fail’ written by Jacqueline Maley appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald on July […]

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Maybe it’s Olympic fever or maybe it’s just plain good advice?

August 15, 2016

Why is it that we love an Olympic hero? Is it the glory of all that gold, or is it in the unimaginable effort that is required to get there? These athletes teach us a level of resilience and guts that most of us can’t even fathom? Medal winning or not, there’s nothing like putting your heart and soul […]

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7 Things to remember when everything goes wrong

August 15, 2016

For all the visual learners out there this is a great video on what it means to be resilient.  It’s short and sweet but pretty much covers all necessary behaviours in overcoming adversity. Nothing more to say really…watch and learn!

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Humbling Advice from a Business Icon?

August 6, 2016

Here is a list of Rules for Students, most frequently attributed to Bill Gates however originally put forth by Charles Sykes in his book “Dumbing Down America”. Again, its one of those controversial lists that may have some of us nodding and saying “oh yeah” with while others simply disagree. Either way, it’s a great […]

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