Resilience is Relational
What if everything you thought you knew about resilience was… wrong? Or at least incomplete? Resilience, to many, means when the going gets tough, the…
What if everything you thought you knew about resilience was… wrong? Or at least incomplete? Resilience, to many, means when the going gets tough, the…
The scream was coming from the bedroom. One of my daughters. Racked with anguish. An awful, heart-rending scream. Followed by another. And another. And then…
There’s only one way to be a man… and that’s to be dominating. Oh, and a man has a right to a woman’s body. *He*…
Every year, like clockwork, I write something about why NAPLAN is bad for kids. Teachers know it’s coming. My readers expect it. I’ve become predictable.…
I don’t know any parent who, at 7:30pm as they drag themselves through another hell-ish night with kids refusing to eat, contribute, or make life…
Einstein said: “The ordinary human being does not live long enough to draw any substantial benefit from his own experience. And no one, it seems,…
That’s what I said on Parental Guidance when we discussed the platform – on national television. And it caused a stir. I’ve agitated against Roblox…
For years, Kylie and I have been asked the same question regularly: Why do you homeschool? Homeschooling wasn’t a snap decision. It was a conversation…
As a new school year begins, many parents find themselves facing a familiar dilemma: “Is it time to give my child a phone?” The pressure…
Eight weeks into Australia’s new social media minimum‑age laws, many parents are asking the same question: Is this actually working? Under the legislation that came…
There’s something almost sacred about reading. For me it’s an indulgence, a luxury, a form of intellectual and emotional nourishment that feeds parts of me…
The start of a new school year is full of emotion. There’s excitement. Nervous energy. Hope that this year will be better than the last…
Every January, I sit down with a mix of curiosity and nerves to review the predictions I made the year before. Some land. Some miss…
When I was a boy – around 12 – my dad asked me a question. He was really weird about it. Jumpy. Antsy. Uncomfortable. “Justin”,…
This morning, Jewish children across Australia are asking impossible questions after one of the worst nights in our recent history. A mother wrote to me…
From December 10 this year, Australia will lead the world in a major change to online safety.New legislation will restrict children under the age of…