Life

Whitcoulls range of educational toys give kids the opportunity to have fun and create while expanding their mind.

We hope your Christmas season is warm and wonderful and that you are able to be surrounded by people that you love.

Eva-Maria helps you navigate through the preteen years of choosing the right friends.

When all you've got is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. My hammer is parenting - whenever I get a chance I bang on about families and parenting because I'm passionate about it.

I have all sorts of memories, like getting mussels out at Bethells Beach with Dad and cooking them on a bit of tin right there on the beach.

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...