Do your children play with all of their toys? It’s an interesting question. I remember a time when I arrived to pick up my son from his friends house where he had gone after school for a play. Both boys…
Tag: children
Reduce Stress By Giving Fewer Christmas Presents
Well, Christmas is breathing down upon us now and you are either getting a little overwhelmed by all of the things still left to do or you are trying to ignore the whole thing and hoping it all goes away.…
Communication: Family relationship building
As the children get older and begin to participate in hobbies and interests of their own it can feel as if the family is being pulled in too many directions. As parents we can find ourselves little more than a…
The multitasking myth.
Why our children don’t hear a word we say. As women we often consider ourselves to be masters of multitasking. We can cook the dinner while supervising homework, we can talk on the phone while emptying the dishwasher and we…
Forgive, learn and move on
When I was teaching, l learnt the very important lesson of stopping to take stock of how things were going, reassessing and trying again, regardless of the time of day. No matter how good the class, or how well planned…
Stop worrying in 3 easy steps
Are you a worrier? I used to be. All sorts of things can keep us up at night from worry. We worry over problems at work, issues with the children or even something we have seen on the news. If…
How to Easily Purge Toys your Children have Outgrown
In the last post about clutter we talked about how to take small steps each day to get rid of clutter in the house. Purging toys from a child’s room, regardless of whether or not they actually play with them, can…
Why bother being organised?
What’s the point of scheduling, planning, organising, being efficient and getting more done in less time? Is it simply to be able to sit down and rest at the end of it all? Is it so that we can squeeze…
Why is my car always like a trash heap?
We all know the feeling, finding out at the last minute that you will have an extra passenger in the car and not having a chance to clean out the clutter first. It’s embarrassing. This happened to me on one…
8 signs your child might be over-scheduled
As a teacher it can be easy to see that not only do we as adults lead extremely busy lives, but so do our children. People used to ask me if my class was difficult to teach on a Friday…