Family

Did you have to write a note to remind you to put on clothes this morning? No… because it's a habit.

School holidays are coming. Soon, their school bag will be thrown the corner of their room for the last time this year. It won't be touched again until late January, by which time only a forensic scientist could tell what the black stuff is in the lunch b

Is your girl a little princess? Of course she is... in one sense anyway. In your eyes and (hopefully) in her own, she is a young woman of huge worth.

Is there a low flow… of communication and affection? Is there a bad taste: tension, passive-aggressive anger and a sense of distance between you?

I've often blown it with my kids. Usually it was getting too angry, too loud. Sometimes I've known I've blown it...

Give a three-year-old a box of LEGO® DUPLO® bricks and he will start to build houses and towers right away. It's almost like an instinct. In fact, stacking a tower and tipping it over is one of the favorite activities for children all over the world.

Every summer, there are far too many tragedies in, on and under the water in New Zealand. Take every possible step to ensure you and your family has the safest possible fun near the water this holiday season.

When school holidays strike, busy working parents often need to enlist the help of the real professionals - grandparents.

Their parents need a break and you have agreed to take care of the grandkids while they are away for a week or two. Looking after them full-time is going to be fun but also a bit of an adventure in that there are probably other things you may need to mana

As a grandparent, I can't think of a better way to make my grandchildren feel relaxed and sleepy at the end of the day than to snuggle up with them and read them a bedtime story.