June 14, 2012
The other day I had the opportunity to truly understand the long-term effects of attachment parenting or as I like to call it “intuitive parenting”. A parent and neighbour offered to pick up my son from school as my daughter was sick. But for very understandable reasons she forgot to get my son. This had never happened to him and his teacher doesn’t ...
May 18, 2012
“Toot, toot, chugga chugga, big red car” sings out daily in homes around Australia. Though the tunes of the big red car will soon be ringing out anew, it will still be a favourite! While it’s not important who your children enjoy listening too – Greg soon to be Gregoria – researchers at McMaster University, Canada have completed ...
April 24, 2012
Is it me or has everything beyond the necessities of parenting grown to mountainous proportions. We are encouraged to factor into our parenting appropriate talk, structured play, sensible diets, self-esteem activities, and on top of that to model a loving relationship with our partner. Don’t know about you but I suddenly feel very tired – lol (lower case). Humour aside there is no mistaking ...
April 14, 2012
I’ve always believed in mother’s intuition, even more so when my daughter, less than two years old had a strain of flu she couldn’t shake. I was taking her to the doctors everyday because the antibiotics didn’t seem to be working and she was losing energy. One particular day, I got a doctor who listened to her chest ...
March 22, 2012
When I became a parent, co-sleeping with your baby was deemed a big fat no no. As a new parent I always put my first born in his cot, never entertaining the idea of co-sleeping with him or any other baby, or so I thought. The day my daughter was born I discovered that she only settled when nestled between my chest and arm, with her ...
March 18, 2012
Parenting debates about how to parent your child will always go on and in my option do nothing but confuse parents and put unnecessary pressure on them. However, more and more research is being conducted which puts to bed a lot of these parenting debates, which is great as it allows parents to get on with what they ...
