I want to encourage you to be self-compassionate on your journey as a parent. You were not born as an expert parent, it wasn’t covered in any school or college curriculum. Even if you have more than one child, you have not parented each child, who has different needs and most likely a different temperament [...]
I'm not sure what I thought parenting would be like. I had an idea in my head: that I'd be pregnant, and it'd be really amazing, and I'd take a lot of nice pictures… and of course, then I get this adorable baby, and I take a lot more pictures. I had in my imagination [...]
Dr Carol Newall, one of Mindworx Psychology's Clinical Psychologists, with her colleague Penny Van Bergen recently had an article published in the Conversation about children and lying. Is telling tall tales all part of childhood - or is all lying wrong? Should you punish your child if you discover they have been a liar? Have [...]
During the toddler stage, expression of emotion is usually uninhibited – children simply act out how they feel. And while it can be mesmerising to watch them be filled with delight, it can be overwhelming to see them act out anger when it happens often, or violates norms (such as biting another child at pre-school). [...]
Stop expecting your child to be more incredible than you are yourself! Yeah, that's right. Do you expect your child to be perfect, all the time? And are you perfect? Do you have some unrealistic expectations for your children? It's quite normal to fail a lot of the time, and yet sometimes parents have these unrealistic expectations that their child will not do so. For example, that their child will sit down night after night for years and always be motivated to do their homework well. Or that they will always wake up in a good mood, always feel like eating the meal you cooked, always manage their temper, always remember to pack away… Just like us, children cannot be perfect. And that's okay.
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