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The best way to teach a child kindness is to be kind to them, we are after all their biggest role models. 

It can be easy to forget to teach them a simple thing like kindness when we're stuck in the parenting hamster wheel!

So here are a few suggestions on how to show your child kindness:

Tell your child:

1. I love you.
2. I love you no matter what.
3. I love you even when you are angry at me.
4. I love you even when I am angry wi...

It’s Wednesday afternoon and you get a call from your child’s school and they need you to come pick them up because they’re sick. However, you’re currently at work, about to have an important client meeting, and on top of that, you have a huge project to finish by the end of the day. Cue volcano eruption from the top of your head.

The responsibilities that come with being a mom as well as a professional can seem daunting at tim...

If we see another woman’s magazine cover saying, how easy it is to get your pre-baby body back, we may just go postal in the checkout aisle. WE GET THE POINT. What are we talking about – The Mom Bod

We all know that the body obsessions begin at a fairly young age. We all want what we don’t have and are ready to try whatever means to get it. As we get older, the obsession doesn’t diminish and instead we throw new unattainable re...

Parenting, like anything, is a journey. One day you think you have it all figured out, then a new dynamic comes into the mix.

When we plan on expanding and procreating, the reasons we have are usually selfish in nature. A need to ‘complete’ yourself or your family is the main reason. What we do not realise is that children actually raise us more then we raise them. They help us raise our level of consciousness, if we are awake...

So you’ve had the dreaded school meeting. Then the specialist consultation.  And now you have the diagnosis. You’ve become an official card carrying special needs mom.

Being a special needs mom is hard. There is no getting around that. There will be a period of grief and mourning (http://mylittlehomeschool.com/special-needs-parents-5-stages-grief/). Take this time and go through the process. But you will soon see that it can be...

Chandré Gould, a senior research fellow in the Crime and Justice Division of the Institute for Security Studies analysed the life histories of repeat violent offenders and is trying to promote positive parenting as one of the ways to combat violence in our country.  Why positive parenting, because it helps to prevent the kinds of violence children experience, and grow up to repeat Positive parenting encourages non-violent disc...

The holidays are underway, we're only a few days in and already my son is asking "what can I do".  So I decided to create a little weekly holiday planner I'm going to stick on the fridge. 

I've made a copy for you to download if you'd to do it too!

The holidays end costing so much money when the kids want to go on continuous outings and this year I'm going to play a little hardball with that. 

I mapped out the days like...

So being a single mom and being in the dating world I've come across a lot of misconceptions about single moms that drive me absolutely nuts...so this is my SET THINGS STRAIGHT post. 

Here are the reasons why it's AWESOME to date single moms. 

We're not needy

Yip, really we're not.  Why would we be, we have everything we already want and need generally.   And generally we've realized that we don't need a man to do anything for us...

I remember when I fell pregnant, I had all these rules I was going to implement with my child.  The things I would and wouldn't do and the things I would and wouldn't let them do.

I think when it comes to your first child we all have sets of rules we want to follow but a lot of the time  if you really think about them, they're rules that tend to be set by other judgmental moms or by the generation before us. 

Here are...

You'd be surprised by some of the totally ridiculous and silly products that get sold to parents. 

Below is a list of some of the biggest money wasting ones!

The Baby Mop

Throw your old mop away and get your crawling baby to do the cleaning for you!

Perfume for Babies

Yip, it's a thing now, even top perfume brands are making perfume for infants.....suppose the lovely natural baby smell just isn't good enough anymore!

The Windi

This o...