Back to Basics Parenting

Have you ever considered what influences you and therefore what you role model for your children? Is it time for an audit?Our children watch and learn from us all the time, let’s give them something awesome to see!

Playing the calibrating and calculating ‘not speaking up’ game, is exhausting and poisons our relationships. Why? Because no-one gets a genuine interaction or conversation. Check out our lates vlog

In parenting, ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ feed shame and shame puts you at the mercy of a model that will keep you searching for answers forever.How about we walk away from that beast...

How much do we want our children to like us? Wanting our children to like us can lead to complications and trouble with a capital ’T'!This simple vlog offers some insight to why we fall into the trap, the consequences and why it is never worth it...

Child-to-parent abuse is increasingly common, that is huge to admit to ourselves, let alone talk about publicly.This is a short blog, but we go there…we start the conversation

When we understand why we behave the way we do, it supports us to see why so many work so hard to fit in.Yet this ‘fitting in’ comes at a cost. What price are you prepared to pay?

Saying no to bullying is a skill we all want for our children and for ourselves. Let’s look at what ‘feeds’ the bully in the first place so we can consider lasting change.

Did anyone tell us that parenting needs us to have a certain kind of fitness? Nope..Well let’s talk about the elephant in the room now…

Let’s have a different take on boundaries, what if it wasn’t about restriction … would it change the reactions?Listen in if you dare!

Discipline in family life is a challenging topic. But could we see discipline in a more practical 'life skill' kind of way? And what would happen to family dynamics if we did? Check out our vlog to hear more.

Are we caught with our pants down when children turn teen? Check out our vlog for more on how we can set a foundation so everyone feels more confident parenting the teen years.

Have you ever had that comment said to you as an insult, a put-down? Being criticized is exhausting. We want to change the narrative!

Could we consider that what we accept as our normal may be for us to not know our worth. If that was the case, then how convenient that we have mega-marketing machines in every industry to sell us all the ways we can improve ourselves.How can we have self-appreciation or set standards if we don't know our own worth?

You may have noticed that parenting can sometimes be an intense business, we squeeze our eyebrows together and squash our brain in effort, compressing ourselves to ‘get it right.’ The problem with all that squeezing and squashing is that we can easily become overwhelmed with the pressure of trying to show that we have all the answers. Check out this vlog that looks beyond the right and wrong of parenting.

Have we ever considered that parenting starts before our baby arrives and is based on what foundations we have lived for ourselves… or did you, like me, think that parenting started the moment we gave birth? Perhaps if we considered how we were parented and what we model for our own children we may recognise that we have to parent ourselves first.

Yep, being a grumpy parent is a thing and something that comes when we, as parents, get sucked into all the expectations of what we ‘should’ be doing and forget what really matters in a relationship. Here we look at what kind of message that sends.

We are all familiar with arguments in family life, you know, the ones where we get into an argument with our kids and or our partner, words are spoken on both sides that should not have been said, and the atmosphere at home is thick as treacle. Is it any wonder we make sure we have a hard shell for protection?This vlog talks about the non-verbal yet very loud communication in life.

Sitting back and observing is not a physical movement where you throw your hands up in the air and give up – that is a reaction and not wildly helpful in the moment, yet a familiar go-to as we start looking at not reacting.  Check out our vlog as we consider the power of observation.