Tag: adult children
6 Great Ways To Decorate The Empty Nest
It’s hard when your child leaves home. If they’ve gone to university there’s a chance they’ll be back regularly – to start with, at...
How To Cope With Your Adult Kids Living At Home (Without...
The traditional way of things was for kids to grow up, finish school and leave home – either to go on to university or...
6 Great Strategies For Parenting Your Adult Children
As our kids get older, our relationship with them inevitably alters. They are now independent, our equals, with their own lives. Adapting to the...
How To Cope When Your Adult Child Returns To The Empty...
“Well,” said my husband, looking around our eerily quiet home. “It’s just us now, then.” I nodded miserably, still tearful. We’d just returned from...
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Child Discipline – Why We Need More Time-Ins, Not Time-Outs
You’re arguing with your spouse through text message. You are mutually tense because you have deadlines to meet at both of your jobs. The...
Why I’m Ditching Friends Who ‘Shame’ Their Kids On Social Media
You’ll no doubt have seen them doing the rounds on social media – a photo of a child, holding a placard explaining a naughty...
‘Mom, Why Do You Have A Fuh-china?’ Embarrassing Kid Moments
There are many, many things that you are not told before you make that giant leap into parenthood. You are not told that you will...
Something For The Weekend – Slow-Cooked Beef Stew
Slow-cooking lets you make the most of cheaper – and often tastier – cuts of meat, so it's ideal for a family on a...
Why We Should Teach Our Daughters To Track Their Menstrual Cycle
It was evident there was a problem as soon as she walked into the room. My daughter had been looking forward to a night...
Something For The Weekend – Easy Fish Pie
For some reason, my children never thought fish pie was ‘real’ food. It was comforting, full of things they liked, and they loved...