Food for Thought

This app is from Hugh van Cuylenburg who was quoted in last week’s article on ‘How to raise resilient children.’ The Resilience Project app is a daily well-being journal. Each day users will be prompted to identify their emotions, record moments of...

Parents, please watch Hugh van Cuylenburg, founder of The Resilience Project, who visited India and noted that children living in third world conditions were full of joy and made comparisons to Australian children's wellbeing. Hugh later studied a...

Pouting, sulking and whining are three of the most annoying ways that kids communicate their displeasure, anger or frustration with a situation. This behaviour is not just limited to young children, either—teens do it because they haven’t always...

We often forget that children aren’t born with a built-in sense of respect for others. While each child has a different personality, all children need to be taught to be respectful. From birth, children learn to manipulate their world to get their...

PARENTS PLEASE READ https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mental-wealth/201609/is-your-chi... Learning this information can literally change the course of your child’s life, it also will help you as a parent to make informed and mindful screen...

Kids today are more obsessed with their body image than those in past generations. This is partially influenced by the media and their social connectivity. Encouraging kids to have a healthy body image in childhood, can lay the foundations for good...

It’s one of many parent’s worst fears. Unfortunately, this is the digital challenge that many parents are facing today. Even if your child is not actively looking for pornography, it is possible to be exposed while doing online research for an...

There is an increasing dialogue in social organisations – in schools, workplaces, court rooms, governments on the importance of empathy. Empathy is what sets us apart from machines. It’s what enables us to relate to other people and their...

It’s not only okay to let your child be bored, it’s paramount that you do so. Most children given unstructured time rise to the occasion and find something interesting to do with it. Unfortunately, our society is raising a whole generation of...

The internet has opened a whole new world of content for youth and a new set of challenges for parents. Parental control on devices can help block access to specific websites and filter sexual content. But it’s also important to talk about which...