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Rapid-Fire Requests

Rapid-Fire Requests

Can I use this?  Be driven there?  Be bought that?  Invite such and-such over? It’s hard to be the recipient of rapid-fire school holiday requests from our kids.   Mark and Sarah were in the thick of this with their two early-high schoolers.  There was building...
Identifying Our Christmas Tipping Point

Identifying Our Christmas Tipping Point

How has it been to be you over there so far this month? What are you trying to manage in terms of trying to make this festive season special?We know families have the most joyfully memorable Christmases when as parents we are able to mindfully be present. It can be...
Like a Metronome

Like a Metronome

I love the first Sunday of the month. I idle my car outside Susan’s house at 7am. She leaps off her front porch, jumps in and directs me to whatever part of Lake Macquarie she has thought of to introduce me to. We bushwalk, go out for quarter-strength lattes 😆...
A Working from Home Tip

A Working from Home Tip

Wear clothes that signify to yourself and your kids when you are in work-mode. Helen from New Lambton Family Chiropractic became as animated as heck when we started talking about this during my adjustment this morning. She too swears by it as an act of self-care that...
Skilled-Up

Skilled-Up

The ‘brain rewiring’ this dad mentions is him saying he didn’t just get a strategy for the issue he came in to discuss….he got a new more useful way of looking at situations that arise in order to work out what is needed. My role is not to...