Tag Archive for: family life
3 Keys to a Peaceful Family Gathering These Holidays
By: Michael McQueen
The holiday season is here. While rest is undoubtedly and necessarily a priority for most of us this year, the holidays can be a stressful time for many. Read more
Empty Nesters, New Beginnings – Tips for Your New-Look Relationship
My husband and I recently became empty-nesters. Our daughter’s wedding was in April. It’s a strange new reality for us, organising a life that was previously built around family and adult children at home, into a completely different scenario. Read more
The Importance of Touch in Raising Teens – Tips for Parents
By: Collett Smart
A shortage of healthy touch can have detrimental effects on our health and wellbeing, even leading to psychologically damaging effects.
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6 Surprising Self-Care Strategies that Work
Picture this scenario:
You’re opening up to a friend about the overwhelming challenges you face as you juggle your children and your multitudinous other responsibilities. You outline the weight of the burdens you carry. The kids, the job, the financial stress, the endless laundry, and the fact that you are the one carrying the mental load of the household. Read more
Chores Lead to Success, Later in Life (even if teens don’t love them!)
By: Collett Smart
Has the artist of Hedger Humour been peeping in my windows? We often wonder about the benefits of chores, and whether the sighing, dodging and procrastination are worth the effort (and that’s just the parents I am talking about! 😉) Read more
Family Traditions Help Kids Make Sense of Life
“Family traditions counter alienation and confusion. They help us define who we are; they provide something steady, reliable and safe in a confusing world.” – Susan Lieberman Read more
Home Will Be the Hero: Creating a Safe Place for Our Tweens and Teens
By: Michelle Mitchell
The feeling of packing your bags up and heading home is always bittersweet, especially if it wasn’t in the original plan. Read more
Heading Home- A Poem
By: Yvette Cherry
The wind was a howlin’,
blowing a gale.
Our Coral Bay holiday
was beginning to fail.
Stop Stuffing Stuff In: Why Relationships Don’t Work on Efficiency
By: Dr Justin Coulson | Happy Families
My wife and I are parents to six daughters.
Yes… six. Yes, we intentionally conceived them. No we weren’t trying for a boy. Yes, we do own a television (which we clearly do not have time to watch.) Read more