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50 Outdoor Activities Every Child Must Experience

After interviewing a number of children under the age of 12, the National Trust has released a list of 50 outdoor activities every child must experience. The truth is, children need adventure – and outdoor adventure. The great news is, most of them require a $0 investment from mum and dad! I don’t know about number 30 but I’m willing to try just about all of them. Which one’s your favourite? Adventurer ...

By |2023-06-09T21:12:03+10:00May 22nd, 2023|Children, Dads, FAMILIES, MOTHERS|0 Comments
  • Coach

Why You Need a Parenting Coach

If you want to be good at something, it’s best to get a coach. The best sportspeople, businesspeople, and musicians in the world usually have coaches, teachers, or guides. They know that to be the best they can be, they need someone to help analyse what they’re doing, find space for improvement, and guide them to it. But many parents go it alone. They figure it out as they go along, ...

By |2023-05-15T13:56:57+10:00May 15th, 2023|Children, Dads, MOTHERS, TRAINING|0 Comments
  • Mothers

Spiritual Mothers

It’s no mistake that the modern celebration of Mothers’ Day occurs in May – the month of Mary. She is a model of motherhood from whom all – men and women alike – take inspiration. We’ve often joked that it takes mere seconds to conceive a child but years of sleeplessness and self-denial to raise one. While that’s no exaggeration for fathers, it’s not quite true for mothers; their biological contribution ...

By |2023-05-13T18:19:31+10:00May 14th, 2023|MOTHERS|0 Comments
  • International Boys' Days

International Boys’ Day – 16 May + Thank God for Mothers

Today, Sunday 14 May, is Mother’s Day but this coming, Tuesday 16 May, is International Boys' Day. What do these two days have in common? #1. Without mothers, we would not have any boys to celebrate. #2. The greatest defenders and promoters of boys are mothers. For that we are grateful. Take for example Kirralie Smith, 2023 Mother of the Year for Family Voice. Kirralie is the founder of 'Binary' who ...

By |2023-05-13T18:32:19+10:00May 13th, 2023|Children, Dads, MOTHERS|0 Comments
  • Maternal

Empowering Young Women to Embrace Their Maternal Instincts

Edited extract from her latest book expected to be published in late 2023. During a brief one-hour interstate flight I sat beside a young man (whom I shall call Ben) in his late twenties. He was married with a seven-month-old son. He’d recently started his own business in construction but now needed his wife to return to work for a year or so – “Just so that we can get on ...

By |2023-05-10T17:04:30+10:00May 11th, 2023|MOTHERS, AUTHORS, Babies, Children, Dads|1 Comment
  • military

Make Mother’s Day a Military Operation

Making the most of Mother’s Day is as simple as bringing your A-game, and plenty of back-up. Carrying out a successful Mother’s Day Op. is about coordination, planning, and having the right headspace. Although a cache of cliché gifts suits the nature of the op, they don’t guarantee operational success. https://youtu.be/BfxaijhOlLA   “Be all you can be, and be all there” – so goes my take on the U.S. Army slogan. ...

By |2023-05-04T12:35:56+10:00May 4th, 2023|Children, Dads, MOTHERS|0 Comments
  • choosing

Choosing to Love

If there is one thing that makes motherhood so worth celebrating, it’s a mother’s capacity for love for her children. Whether it’s her willingness to give over her body to nourish a newborn, her patience with the endless ‘but why’ questions of a toddler, or the testing rebellion of a teenager, mothers seem to have a special empathy for the heart of their children. But most mothers will admit that they ...

By |2023-05-04T11:49:13+10:00May 3rd, 2023|LOVE & MARRIAGE, MOTHERS|0 Comments
  • mother's day

Happy Mother’s Day

I send out a warm Mother’s Day wish for my mum to be blessed with genuine pride in having raised three awesome men. I admire the example of care she set in her nursing work, especially with the elderly. I saw Mum argue the case for patients to be treated with the utmost dignity and respect when the frailty of the aged patients prevented them from advocating for themselves. I hold ...

By |2023-05-04T10:44:49+10:00May 2nd, 2023|MOTHERS, SINGLE DADS|0 Comments
  • questions

Can I Ask You a Question?

No wonder I’m so tired! A UK study found that the average child asks around 300 questions a day. How on earth did our parents ever get by before Google? What made me smile was that the research revealed kids were more likely to ask their mother questions because their father was likely to say, ‘Ask your mother.’ Here are my tips for being the best ‘source of all knowledge’ you ...

By |2023-03-13T06:42:20+10:00March 13th, 2023|MOTHERS, Children|0 Comments
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