- 29 Sep 2025
- 6 Jun 2025
Are you a selfish parent?
Putting yourself first often causes feelings of guilt. As a parent, we may feel that we're somehow letting our children down by not making their needs the highest priority. These feelings can be really hard to deal with.
- 24 May 2025
Celebrating our 5 year anniversary!
The story of how Parenting with Passion came to exist!
- 18 Oct 2024
Are you an authoritative or an authoritarian parent?
Adam unpacks the difference between being authoritative and being authoritarian.
- 16 Oct 2024
Talking about anxiety
Lisa Elanor and Adam talk about the ways children show they are anxious and what parents can do about it.
- 16 Oct 2024
"Our children stand in our shadow" - food for thought!
We don’t just magically know how to say things in a way our children can hear, and respond to in the way we want. In the heat of the moment, we don’t have wizardly power to always respond in a way which is most beneficial to our children. It’s not difficult if we remember that we need to learn about our children as fast as our children are learning about the world.
- 16 Oct 2024
Are we rubbish parents?
There’s an important difference between imagining and pretending. Imagining takes place on the inside and pretending takes place on the outside. Obviously! But which are we doing, right now, when we go to work, with our partners, when we stand out in a group? The question relates to who we think we are. But don’t we really mean “imagine” who we are?
- 26 Mar 2024
Are you seeking control or co-operation?
Adam Abdelnoor explains why winning your children's co-operation whenever possible is a much better strategy than "pulling rank" and being the controlling parent.
- 28 Dec 2023
Can you 'make' children co-operate?
When you're trying to do something and your children refuse to co-operate, situations can rapidly become fraught. So is there any way you can 'make' your children co-operate?
- 28 Dec 2023