Tag: Parenting

Are iPads harmful to little kids? Of course they are: they can cause considerable brain damage, if you drop one on your child's head. But as regards actually using them - I don't believe anyone knows about long term results because they haven't been arou

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.

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...

My thick framed brown glasses were a sort of chastity belt I wore on my face. Not only did they cause social rejection but I could also see very clearly and crisply who it was who was rejecting me.

It's great to see schools and authorities talking bullying more and more seriously. It's very rare now for a school not to have a policy in place and so if you voice your concerns it will get some action - hopefully positive and thoughtful action.