Tag: Parenting

It didn’t take me long as a school mum to work out that there are two types of people in this world - those...

Alex* was a popular kid. He seemed OK. He was good at sports, doing fine at school, and came from an affluent, strong family. But...

In our quest to be great parents, we often don't see that our actions aren't always best for our children. Now's the time to...

Recently there has been a groundswell of popular opinion extolling the value of letting our kids be bored. A recent New York Times article...

What podcasts are you listening to these days? Whether your answer is, 'What's a podcast?' or 'I'm looking for a new podcast to listen to',...

What if our children don't want to go to Mass? Should we insist? Isn't there a danger that forcing the issue will make them...

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We're talking about your yelling, not theirs Almost all parents yell at their kids. Some of us are better at keeping our voices down than...

One of the greatest joys priests have in their work is being asked to baptise children. Like most parishes, we always take time with the...

One of the most common things people said about Regan was that he seemed to have it all. And in some ways he did. Handsome,...