Reward Charts – How to Make them Work for your Kids
If you have never used charts for behaviour change in your family, or you’ve used them and they’ve not worked as you had hoped, I encourage you to read on. Charts can transform your family life, your child’s behaviour and even your morning chaos if they are used correctly. Charts aren’t just for the little […]
Conflict With Your Child’s Teacher – How Do I Navigate That?
I was fuming. Mr 5 had come home from school, again, and dissented all over the lounge room. School is no fun Mummy, he says. All I do is work work work. He tells me his teacher tells him he is silly, naughty, not good at school. I boiled. Mr 5 is not silly, he […]
Difficult conversations – How the heck do I explain that?
Here are some things that are damn near impossible to explain to a 5 year old without getting lost in your own cornfield. Smoking We drove past a notorious footpath smoking spot (at a bus stop near a major hospital) where patients, doctors and nurses gather to get their nicotine fix. What’s that thing they are […]