Allowing your children to face challenges
Set up for a loss
I read a really interesting blog post this week about why Generation Y folks aren’t happy. It was interesting for...
Being the right mom for your children
Do you ever have those days as a parent where you stop for a second and question the way you are going about this...
Do you get what I’m saying?
I recently saw two chameleons on a farm in Pretoria, South Africa – one was bright green and the other was dark brown. I...
What to do about selective hearing?
One of the most frustrating aspects of raising a child is when you, the parent, struggle to make yourself heard. With enough on your...
Are my twins becoming tweens?
His mom seems to think he’s in the throes of the tween years, but I wonder if my nine-year-old nephew is just being a...
Just do it!
I know we are only in March, but I think it would be safe to say that many of us have settled into our...
For when you feel like a bad mom
A reoccurring conversation that comes up between moms is that we always feel like we are not doing enough for our kids, or we...
Surviving the teenage years
Everybody warned me. Teenagers are a nightmare, or so I was told. Family members give their two cents and sitcoms paint the teenage years...
How do you handle Halloween?
For many years Halloween remained a bit of a non-event in South Africa. The high walls and fences, guard dogs and armed response around...
Back to school, back to reality
We all knew it was coming, or maybe we have been secretly counting down to this very day: BACK TO SCHOOL. Another new year...