Parenting
10th World Meeting of Families
Family love: a vocation and a path to holiness One might well say, “You don’t know my family; it’s a path to messiness (or worse)!”…
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Feeling COVID tired, our children are feeling too
Are you feeling a bit COVID tired? I am. Our children are feeling it, too. Right now, the world is collectively grieving. Everyone is experiencing some…
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The Sacredness in Simplicity
Simple is sacred. In an over-performance culture, the greatest gift a parent can give is a sense of belonging and acceptance. Susanne North explores how…
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The World on a Forced Sabbatical
It has taken a deadly, invisible and microscopic enemy to force the whole world to stop dead in its tracks. Susanne North explores the upside…
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Parenting – the Simple Way
In a world full of uncertainties, anxieties and an over-performance culture of never being good enough, the biggest gifts that parents can give to children…
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Discipline with Love
When parents think of ‘discipline’ they are usually thinking in terms of ‘punishment’. But another definition is ‘instruction’. Dr Justin Coulson points out that the…
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Our daily Bread
How sharing dinner is a ritual at the heart of a family’s life. Many of our fondest memories from childhood relate to meals we have…
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Restorative Practices @ Home
No one puts their feet on the floor each morning with the intention to cause harm to others… write Vic & Liz O’Callaghan. Sometimes things…
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Beyond Fear
The fear of an unplanned pregnancy is one of the prevailing realities of modern coupledom. No matter how much we love babies, how much we…
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Tackling the Tricky Questions
Those tricky questions! They come when we least expect them and at the most inconvenient of circumstances. How can parents tackle the tricky questions from…
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Emotional Literacy
Emotional Intelligence, sometimes abbreviated to ‘EQ’, is widely recognised as important for human flourishing. Some psychologists would argue that it’s the most important of the…
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Love Language Gifts
Developed by Gary Chapman, the Five Love Languages, is a simple framework that can teach us how to love more effectively. The theory is simple…
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