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)!”…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…