Planning your 2025 family resolutions
With a new year just around the corner, many families take the opportunity to set resolutions. Family resolutions can strengthen bonds, set a positive tone for the year ahead, and create lasting memories. Unlike personal resolutions, family resolutions are about teamwork, shared goals, and collective growth. Here’s how you can make 2025 a year of […]
Podcast: Masculinity and gender equity in the workplace
In this episode we dive into a crucial and timely topic – gender equity and masculinity in the workplace. We’ll explore how workplaces can foster environments that challenge traditional notions of masculinity, while also promoting gender equity in a way that includes men as part of the solution, not just the conversation. About our guest […]
Podcast: Supporting your child’s big emotions
In this episode, we discuss parenting in the modern world and supporting your children’s big feelings and emotions. The episode is packed with actionable tips and strategies to help you manage your child’s big emotions and challenging behaviour without feeling like you’re ‘losing control’. This episode will explore: The current landscape of parenting in 2024 […]
Helping your child to self-reflect
Self-reflection is a vital skill that helps children develop self-awareness, understand their emotions, and make more informed decisions. Teaching children to self-reflect gives them tools to understand themselves and build resilience, empathy, and emotional intelligence. Here are six tips to introduce self-reflection techniques to children: Lead by example Children learn best by example, so modelling […]
How Parenting in Ages 5-10 Shapes Lifelong Development
In this episode we are joined by Dr Norman Swan who helps us to understand the critical window we have with our children between the ages of 5 to 10, and what we can do as parents to help them thrive in life, at school and grow into secure children. While the first five years […]
Supporting your mental health with life balance
We all need to find a comfortable balance that includes time for all the aspects of our lives that we feel are important including family, work, physical wellbeing, mental wellbeing and social time. Life balance doesn’t just happen, you have to create it by prioritising what is truly important to you, taking control of your […]
Being a role model for navigating conflict
Conflict is a normal part of life, and it is important for you to model to your child/ren positive ways of handling conflict and disagreements. If you have a conflict situation in the home, how you approach it can be very powerful, and gives your child essential tools for their future at home, at school […]
How to support your children through separation
Supporting children through a separation is a top priority to ensure their wellbeing. Separating from your partner can be an emotional time. In families with children, the separation of parents can be particularly hard on the children, so it’s important to keep their best interests at heart through the journey that follows. What you can […]
How to help your child to build empathy
The development of true empathy and compassion is a step-by-step process that builds as children develop and experience life. Sympathy means recognising someone’s emotions, but empathy is a step further. Empathy is when you feel the same emotion as the other person because you can imagine yourself in their place. Compassion takes this further. When […]
Tips for helping your children to be safe in activities without you
As your child gets a bit older, they become increasingly independent and may spend time away from you at school, sports or other activities. It is important to have conversations about staying safe when you are not there. Top Tips Set boundaries about places they may go, people they may see, and things they may […]
Navigating the Digital World: Protecting your child’s online presence
One of our most commonly asked about topics is how parents can keep their kids safe online. The digital world is constantly changing, and navigating it as a parent can often be challenging. We want the best for our children, and their online safety must be a top priority. In this episode we are joined […]
Why you need to be an adaptable dad
Every dad knows that once you have children, even the best plans can be sent into chaos in an instant. In order to meet these challenges effectively, you have to find ways of staying in the game, even when things aren’t going right. “Look at me right now. Relaxing in the driver’s seat, windows down, […]