When sudden, unexpected, personal traumatic events occur, they can place extra stress on the family as a whole as well as on individual family members. How your family responds to Continue Reading →
Dad, I call your spirit to attention and bless you with knowing how much you are loved. I bless you with deeply knowing and understanding that you are known, wanted, Continue Reading →
On holidays recently, my gaze was drawn to a family nearby. Mum, standing, was on the phone, cradling her newborn. Dad was sitting over the other side of the restaurant Continue Reading →
One of our roles as a parent is to help our children develop the necessary skills so that they can function well as an adult in today’s society. In raising Continue Reading →
Last week I wrote about parenting prophetic children, specifically looking at the likely characteristics they will display whilst a child and how to recognise if your child may have a Continue Reading →
Every child is unique and one thing I am learning is that there is no singular right way to parent every child. Every child needs some adaptation to our parenting Continue Reading →
For my daughter’s fifth birthday, our next door neighbour gave her a bra and pants set. My daughter was excited. I certainly wasn’t. The set soon ‘disappeared’. Somehow society in Continue Reading →
I can’t even remember the context now. I just remember the words. “Aesthetically soothing”. Matey and I were reading the book “Gimlet” by Captain W.E. Johns together (actually I was Continue Reading →
The words we say carry such weight into the ‘atmosphere’ and have the potential to come back and affect us again. I have been on a journey over the last Continue Reading →
Here in Australia our children are on school holidays at the moment. When they were younger, I used to have all sorts of challenges during the school holidays for my Continue Reading →