The family lifestyle blog with a side of psychology
One of the hardest things for children to learn is how to handle big emotions like anger. To be fair, it can be really hard for us adults too. I know I don't always behave all that nicely when I'm feeling really angry or upset. But at least as we get ...
We all want to find ways to get more for our money these days don't we. One of the big expenses a lot of us pay for is home entertainment, either with satellite TV services or streaming subscription services like Netflix and Amazon Prime TV. There are ...
If you're anything like me then chances are you quite often feel nervous when you meet new people. I'm better with it than I used to be, but I do still worry that I'll say the wrong thing, or that the whole exchange will just feel really awkward. Ov ...
I can't quite believe that another month has come and gone already. It doesn't feel long ago at all that I was on this beach taking our family photos for March, and now here we are again for April. After the glorious weather over the Easter weekend it ...
So here we are, back to the old normal routine. I've got the usual mixed emotions. Happy to be back in that routine, that regular rhythm of the working week. But also sad to see the end of the holidays when we've had a really lovely time all together ...
Family life is a mass of contradictions, it’s rewarding, exhausting, frustrating and worrying in equal measure. It’s all also all-consuming. So much so that very often it’s easy to forget who you were before you had a partner and children. If you’re ha ...
We are halfway through the Easter holidays and the break from school has been lovely so far. It was just me and the children for most of last week. On Monday we went to an Easter craft session at the local library that was a lot of fun, and had the ad ...