Elephant mum with baby
  • 6 Jun 2025

Are you a selfish parent?

Do you ever feel guilty because you put your own needs before those of your children? Putting yourself first often causes feelings of guilt. 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.
LIsa Bedlow Elanor Caunt and Adam Abdelnoor
  • 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.
Trees casting long shadows over trail
  • 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.
Young girl blowing dandelion head
  • 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?
two images - father talking kindly to boy, mother telling boy off
  • 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.
mother talking to teenage daughter on park bench
  • 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?
Worried father
  • 28 Dec 2023

Reacting to children’s behaviour

Our lives as parents are so busy! Sometimes we just don’t have time to stop and reflect on our children’s ‘problematic’ behaviour, we just react in the moment. How we react depends not just on how we view the behaviour but on: our immediate plans, the actual impact and the social impact of the behaviour, our mood at the time
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