Thank you to Carolyn Verhoef from Out of The Box Solutions for her guest blog this week. Getting children organised can be exhausting and stressful – Carolyn provides some tips on how to make it easier.

How To Get Out Of The House On TIME!

Is love enough?

I had an incident with my son the other day, we were arguing and I was so frustrated and angry. I walked into the kitchen to give myself some breathing space and I kept saying to myself over and over again, “Go back with love, go back with love.” … Continue reading

Imagine that your child is a video camera, recording life as a parent in order to make sense of it so they know how to ‘be’.

• You teach your child how to be a woman, a man, a friend.
• You teach them how to forgive, how to be kind and how to deal with stress
• You teach them what love looks like and how we treat each other
• You teach them what respect means
• You teach them what it is to live in a community
• You teach them about what is important in the world
• You teach them how to handle mistakes and conflict and what resilience is.

Listen
Parents think that they are listening to children when really they are trying to educate, inform, dismiss, distract, blame, interrogate, correct, moralise or ignore. Learning to really listen will help you to understand your child and what makes them behave the way they do.… Continue reading