Challenging the Mother Challenge
Mother challenge: Be a "good one." The cop out and the condemnation. This challenge is accepted by many and affects all mothers to varying degrees; no matter what your age,...
Four-Year-Olds: fast and fascinating
Be “Social Butterflies” or have “Social Butterflies” Four-year-olds develop a great deal in this year socially and emotionally. Depending on personality and experience, four-year-olds seem to either delight in socialising...
Parenting three-year-olds: visiting wonderland
Sometimes three-year-olds act as though they will never return from la-la land? How they love to create their fantasy and be free and fanciful. The three-year-olds developmental stage is one...
Making the terrible twos terrific mostly.
Oh no! not the "terrible twos" This was a term coined by people who'd had to contend with two-year-olds who had discovered he has strong emotions, he doesn't always agree...
Parent Guilt: 7 Symptoms, 7 steps to change
Parent guilt: finding freedom Parent guilt happens I don’t know of a parent who hasn’t succumbed at some stage to feeling guilty. (It’s usually pretty soon after we’ve held that...
Love languages: 5 powerful relationship tools
The 5 love languages Developed around the idea that the way we communicate love for one another has a ‘language’ and thus one can either be proficient or can easily...
How birth order effects response in relationships
W ho's got the lollipop in this picture? The youngest. It's not hard to spot the older sister either is it? Birth order effects the manifestation of our personality, our...
4 temperaments: Understanding Personality
U nderstanding personality as a means to respond to our own and others defaults and thus learn how to interpret and relate is such an important tool in relationships. This...
Understanding Personality Types: introversion extroversion
P ersonality types arise from that aspect of your identity that is a relatively predictable, stable and organised set of psychological traits that influence how you respond to your environment....