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By E K Wills our nuclear family The internet is full of pictures of parents posting pics of their kids. Sharing and parenting, known as ‘sharenting’ is the term given to parents who post images and stories of them and their children online. Parents use ‘ sharenting ’ as a way for long distance friends and relatives to keep updated on family activities and developments and a diary of what they are experiencing. Of course there are also those that use it as a way to show how fabulous their lives are, but that’s another story… Then there was a big scare about predators and paedophiles trawling the internet for baby and child pics and it was highlighted as a privacy issue. Waivers need to be signed before your child can be photographed at school and put in the school newsletter or on the website but as parents we are able to post individually any time. Parents are being scorned for putting images of their children on social media such as FB and so we are forced to th...

Try these techniques to prepare you for baby's arrival day Not only pregnant women fear childbirth. Young girls wonder about it even before that twinkle is in anyone’s eye. Some even decide not to have babies because of what they have heard. But all that could be different for you if you join one of these birthing movements. for more quotes with cats, view at https://au.pinterest.com/mumsandmentalhealth/ Calm birthing, and another variant, known as hypnobirthing, are becoming increasingly popular for expectant mothers in combating the fear of labour. As far back as 1987, hypnobirthing was incorporated into the first childbirth education program with research showing the benefit to women during this period. Although considered complementary therapies, a study done in 2016 in Australia on effective childbirth education, showed almost half the rate of interventions for births when educated on normal labour and birth. Calm vs Hypnosis Accord...

The art of accepting a compliment I’ve never been good at taking compliments but like to give them freely. Even when I consciously say to myself that I will try and accept them, someone will give me a sneaky compliment and I mumble some excuse to negate it. Like last weekend when a colleague asked me my secret to a youthful appearance, I muttered something about my Chinese heritage and quickly changed the subject. But I have one friend who is very good at accepting compliments and I realised that it makes you feel good to give when they are received enthusiastically. Luckily, after my last fumble, I was more prepared when another friend commented on my appearance today and I replied “Thank you!” in a gregarious manner. Newton's cradle We need to be able to give and receive compliments. If you think of it like Newtons’ Law: to every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. The pendulum swings back and balances opposing forces. If it doesn’t swing b...

...  and 6 ways to get you on track As we launch into Spring, it is the perfect time for a spring clean up. And there are many benefits to doing this: 1.      Decrease the stress of the mess 2.      Cleaning can be made fun 3.      Make money from discarded items 4.      Reduce wasted time chasing kids and picking up 5.      Spend more quality time doing fun things with the family Mess and Stress Whether it we realize it or not, having mountains of stuff around us adds to stress levels because there are endless jobs not yet completed. It can be so overwhelming that it becomes a mountain when it started out as just as a molehill. If ignored, it gets under feet, and guilt sets in :“I should be more organized” or “I’ll get to that soon”. Create fun ways to declutter This is something that the whole family can do together. It is not the responsib...