Tag: Parenting

August 26, 2018

Everyday moments are lessons for life

The other day we were out driving and the car next to us started drifting into our lane. My quick toot of the horn to alert the driver was met with one loud, long blast that lasted a couple of hundred metres. Just in case we didn’t get the message, the front passenger gestured a two-handed ‘bird’ all the way to the next set of traffic lights.

We seem to have lost the ability to take responsibility for our actions – to smile, wave and say ‘oops sorry, my bad!’

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August 15, 2018

For Mums this Father’s Day

Here’s a Father’s Day idea that will speak to one of your man’s greatest desires, and it won’t cost a cent.

I recently read a book called Love and Respect which explores one of the differences between women and men. Author Dr Eggerichs says that a woman’s primary desire is to be loved, and a man’s primary desire is to be respected. That’s not to say that men don’t need to be loved (or that women don’t need to be respected), it speaks to the most fundamental of needs in a hierarchy of desires.

To make his point, the author references a recent US study where men were asked, ‘if forced to choose between one of the following, which would they prefer to endure?

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July 25, 2018

4 Ways to Make Reality Trump Screens

Recent Canadian research found that teenagers 13-18 years of age are spending over 6.5 hours a day on a screen-based device (that’s almost the equivalent of a full-time job!). For Australian teenagers, it’s around half that at 3.3 hours a day; 4.5 hours a day for American teenagers.

However, is all this screen time such a bad thing? It seems so. A new study out of The University of Michigan makes a direct correlation between a significant and sudden drop in adolescent happiness since 2012 and the proliferation of smartphones.

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