Soccer Mums, Netball Dads, and How to Help Our Children Thrive
I don’t know how long I’d been doing it, but somewhere in the third quarter I realised that I’d lost all perspective. My eldest daughter was playing…
Tag: Resilience in Children
Learning to take on challenges
Written by James Anderson How’s your relationship with challenge? Challenges are the pathway to growth. When our children habitually avoid challenges, their learning stalls. When…
How to Help when School Sucks
“I don’t want to go to school today.” “My tummy hurts.” “School is boring!” “I have a headache.” “They tease me about how I look.”…
Why Our Kids Are Falling Apart
Supporting children’s mental health is an essential aspect of fostering resilience and well-being in today’s complex world. With rising concerns over factors like social media,…
School Refusal
You’re glancing at the clock every 90 seconds. The space between making it and not making it is closing. “Hurry up!” Initially it was a…
Self Care Strategies That Really Work
Picture this scenario: You’re opening up to a friend about the overwhelming challenges you face as you juggle your children and your multitudinous other responsibilities.…
7 Tips for Raising Girls
A short while ago my new book about teenage girls, Miss-Connection, was released. The book appeared on some bestseller lists around the country. Since then, I’ve…
3 Strategies for Inoculating Girls Against Stress
It is generally well accepted that females experience greater levels of depression and anxiety than males. This is true, not only during adulthood, but also…
Attitude Is Everything
When my youngest daughter was around 18 months old we shared an experience that taught me a valuable lesson about how our attitude is everything.…
What Legacy Are You Building?
Pause and think, for just a moment, of the most excellent person you have ever met… What made them so “excellent”? Is it possible to…
3 Simple Strategies to Supercharge Your Attitude
I don’t like to deal with absolutes… always, never, everything, nothing. After all, I’m a research scientist. For people like me, I prefer statements like…
Social Skills Are The Secret To Stronger Emotional Immunity
This blog is in partnership and sponsored by Nutricia. Social skills are a critically important component of strengthening our children’s emotional immunity to life’s big challenges,…
Easy Tips And Tricks To Build Stronger Emotional Immunity In Children
This blog is in partnership and sponsored by Nutricia. Ensuring our children have great nutrition allows us to help them be strong and healthy. As…
Boosting Your Child’s Physical and Psychological Immunity
This blog is in partnership and sponsored by Nutricia. If you have a young child you know that it’s nearly impossible to keep them from…
Mental Health Consequences of Hard Border Closures on FIFO Children
In March 2020 Western Australia shut its borders. While there may be well-meaning policies behind the border closures, there’s no escaping the fact that this…
Isolation is getting harder for our children. Here’s how to help.
Though families have felt palpable relief as restrictions have started to ease across the rest of the nation, our Victorian children are struggling more and…