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Behaviour
Helping your child make and keep friends
Children who develop healthy friendships generally have a definite set of social skills that help make them easy to like,…
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Anxiety
Managing your child’s anxiety
If your child feels anxious, reassure them that these feelings are a normal response to new people, events or potentially…
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Behaviour
Disciplining your sensitive child
Disciplining sensitive kids is usually never straightforward. Sensitive kids, those creative, empathetic types who generally wear their hearts on their…
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Resilience
Children’s birthday parties – cause for celebration or alienation?
Practical strategies to help children deal with rejection and disappointment.
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Resilience
Daily lessons in resilience for kids
Recently, I saw a mother give a simple, yet profound resilience lesson to her three year old. The toddler fell…
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Guides
Helping your kids through the end of daylight savings
The end of daylight savings isn’t something that often fills parents with joy, despite the promise of “extra time” for…
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Behaviour
Convince me!
Kids of all ages are excellent at wearing down the resistence of a parent who denies permission for them to…
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Positive Parenting
Responding constructively to the Christchurch shooting
Last Friday’s shooting of innocent people in two Christchurch mosques is an event that has shaken people to the core…
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Positive Parenting
2019 parenting trends you should know
Parenting Ideas always keeps a close eye on parenting trends so we can help keep you ahead of the curve.…
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Girls
Mothering your daughter
The bond between mother and daughter is truly unique and has far reaching effects on the development and socialisation of…
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Boys
Angry boys: how boys can better manage their emotions
Increasingly boys are becoming angry, aggressive and violent. News reports of young men committing acts of violence against each other…
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Positive Parenting
Encourage kids to help at home (every day without pay)
Confident kids are competent kids. Past experience has taught them that they can be successful. The easiest (and most neglected…
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Resilience
Language of independence building
Families always develop shared language around the values that have strong meaning for them. If independence and self-sufficiency are important…
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Positive Parenting
Unearthing kids’ strengths for happiness and success
Personality strengths—our character—play a big role in helping us build our talents. Think about anyone who has built a talent…
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Positive Parenting
Top five parenting tips for this year
The start of the year is a great time for making changes and improvements to the way you raise kids.…
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Bullying
Preventing childhood bullying
Childhood bullying is an insidious behaviour that thrives on secrecy and adult acquiescence. The recent efforts by a father in…
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Positive Parenting
Benefit mindset: Beyond a growth mindset
The impact of the mindset work of Carol Dweck has been profound. Since she published her book ‘Mindset’ in 2006…
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Positive Parenting
Parenting Ideas holiday survival guide
Holidays are about kicking your feet up, relaxing and getting away from the usual routines. That’s how kids see holidays.…
