Co Parenting

This week we are talking about birthdays and in particular Your ex’s birthday Yes I know you are no longer in a relationship and I am not suggesting you continue to celebrate each others birthdays; this is about how your children celebrate and perceive their parent’s birthdays (i.e. your ex's bi...

This week I want to continue on with what we were discussing last week in terms of moving interstate. Last week it was a question emailed in from one of our followers and the move specifically related to a job opportunity that they had but what we are going to talk about today relates no matter the ...

This week we have been emailed through a question – “I have been offered a job interstate – should I take it?” Firstly congratulations on the job offer before you accept it though there are some things that you need to think through; and I thought that some of you may relate to this which is...

So you have made the decision to separate. You know that this is the best thing for your children in the long term. How do you tell them? Do you both sit down with the children and explain what is going to happen? Do you just pack everything up and leave, telling them on the way to the new place? D...

This week I want to talk about extra curricular activities; what happens when we don’t want our child to participate in an activity. When this happens we can get a lot of conflict and a lot of emotions can come up as to why we don’t want them to participate in the activity – whatever it is. Be...

This Sunday as many of you will know is Mother’s Day here in Australia. Happy Mother’s Day to all of you mum’s out there. What we want to talk about this week is what is going to happen for you on Mother’s Day. Some of you may be lucky enough that you are spending the day with your children ...

In just over a week my little girl will turn 2. I can’t believe it. I am not quite sure where the two years has gone and I am sure many of you are the same. This got be me thinking though – how do you organise your children’s birthdays? What do you do to enable them to spend time with each of ...