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5 Tips to Manage Christmas Meltdowns

Taming Tweens: Tips for Dealing with 11-13 Year Olds

Supporting Your Child's Mental Health

Adapting to School

10 Outdoor Games for the Best Summer Holidays

Cultivating a Peaceful School Holiday

If Your Family is Leaving Hong Kong

Dealing with Mom Fears

The Different Sides of Anxiety

Modeling Healthy Responses to Stress

Myths About Punishment and What to Do Instead (Part 2)

Myths About Punishment and What to Do Instead (Part 1)

How to Parent Sanely During the Festive Season

Are you an Emotion Dismissing or an Emotion Coaching parent?

Using Family Meetings as a Positive Parenting Tool

How to Stay Connected with Family Overseas

How to Help Your Kids Make Friends

The Hows and Whys of Being in Charge as a Parent

The 5Cs of Parenting as a Team with Your Partner

I Said 'NO'!

Bedtime Battles and How to Avoid Them

My Favourite Parenting Books

"When you die, can I take your computer?": How to Talk to Children About Death

8 Tips to Calmly Handle Sibling Fights

10 Tips To Help Parents Stay Sane During Kids' Online Learning

Surviving The Doom of Covid Home Learning

What to do with rebel children? 8 great tips for tired parents

Saying goodbyes to little ones

Who do you love more, Mom?

10 things I wish they had told me about having a premature baby

Ten years ago I thought I knew perfectly well how to raise kids

Kids and gadgets

All in good time

Sharing is caring’ ... or is it?

5 Tips to Manage Christmas Meltdowns

It is nearly here – the Wonderful Christmas time! School concerts and assemblies, Christmas songs and decorations everywhere you go,...

Taming Tweens: Tips for Dealing with 11-13 Year Olds

Do you have a tween? A person who is not yet a teenager nor still the little sweet child they once were. Mood swings, bursts of anger,...

Supporting Your Child's Mental Health

October is Depression and Mental Health Awareness Month and October 10th is WHO World Mental Health Day, so I want to share a few tips as...

Adapting to School

Happy September everyone. May the new school year kick off on a positive note. Wishing calmness, strength and zen-mode to all of us (both...

10 Outdoor Games for the Best Summer Holidays

Think back to your own summer holidays when you were a child. Most of the time, we were spending time outdoors and playing in the yard....

Cultivating a Peaceful School Holiday

The school holidays are here! Are you feeling happy to have the kids home, or are you already counting down the days until they go back...

If Your Family is Leaving Hong Kong

Is your family leaving Hong-Kong? How are you feeling about this decision? And what about your kids? Saying goodbye isn't easy for most...

Dealing with Mom Fears

A long time ago I was fearless. I could swim past the buoys and enjoy the corals of the Red Sea, I could parachute from a plane and...

The Different Sides of Anxiety

Last month's blog was about self-care, and I shared a few tips on the physical and mental ways of dealing with anxiety in adults,...

Modeling Healthy Responses to Stress

Hi parents, We all have been stuck on an emotional roller coaster over the past couple of years. The world keeps throwing up more and...

Myths About Punishment and What to Do Instead (Part 2)

In the previous article I wrote about the myths that surround the need for punishment, whether emotional (ignoring, grounding, or...

Myths About Punishment and What to Do Instead (Part 1)

Psychologists and developmental specialists unanimously agree that punishment is detrimental to a child's development. We’ve all heard...

How to Parent Sanely During the Festive Season

Sane parenting during the silly season sounds like a tall order, but I promise that it's not as difficult as it sounds. I agree that...

Are you an Emotion Dismissing or an Emotion Coaching parent?

We used to think that IQ was a deciding factor in how a child would fare in adulthood. However, many years of research and studies have...

Using Family Meetings as a Positive Parenting Tool

Are family meetings a regular part of the routine at your house? Family meetings can be such a positive part of family life, and can have...

How to Stay Connected with Family Overseas

In these days of COVID-19 travel restrictions, quarantines and lockdowns, many of us have found it difficult or impossible to travel and...

How to Help Your Kids Make Friends

One of the crucial components of friendly relations between people is attachment, to which the famous psychologist J. Bowlby devoted his...

The Hows and Whys of Being in Charge as a Parent

Why is it important for parents to be in charge? The part of the brain dealing with logic and rationality and controlling emotions, the...

The 5Cs of Parenting as a Team with Your Partner

They used to say, “it takes a village to raise a child”. This saying might be a little old fashioned these days with our individualistic...

I Said 'NO'!

- Mom, I am going to play football. - No, you have played enough today. It's already late, now we will do quiet reading, brush teeth and...

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