It is very easy to underestimate the impact of stress on children because, in many instances, they lack the sophisticated communication skills to explain how they are feeling. This is why it is important to look for non-verbal clues and to listen very carefully when children attempt to explain how they are feeling. The Australian [...]

Your children probably get more emails than you do.  Their network on social networking sites may run into hundred’s of people.  They may rarely, if ever, get a letter through the mail. Letter writing has been superseded by the technologies of the digital age.  Digital communication is fast, efficient and frequently impersonal. While I relish [...]

Kids love to tumble.  Slippery dips, swings, roundabouts, razzle dazzles … these are words that may bring back memories of joyful abandonment as a child.  (They might also bring back memories of pain if you came a cropper). What do you do to achieve joyful abandonment?  Is it surfing, skiiing, or are you still young [...]