There’s a saying, “The family that plays together, stays together” which is very true. As children grow up surrounded by screens and technology in a time of busy-busy and hurry-scurry, keeping up family rituals, connectedness and sharing is increasingly important....
Perhaps you read the last blog on cyberbullying and girls – so now, it’s time to take a look at boys in the online space. While cyberbullying happens to both girls and boys, there are some distinct trends that happen more within each gender grouping. Of course, that...
At every point along the parenting journey, there come times of recognising that a particular unwanted behaviour or attitude of a child has either settled in or started to unacceptably increase – and there’s a feeling of it being a bit (or a lot) out of...
You may be wondering why we’re having a gender-based discussion about cyber-bullying. Is it really all that different between the genders – and is this the same online as offline? Understanding how girls and boys use the online space in the same and different ways...
The scene is set… Screen-time has snuck up from a little bit, to a much-too-much sort of situation. Maybe it’s been over holidays or because of a particularly busy period in family life. The decision is made to pare back on screen-time and while the body is...
As children head into the years sandwiched between childhood and adolescence – we call them the ‘tweens’ – there is often mounting pressure (and desire) to be online with friends. Whether chatting, gaming, making and sharing videos – there’s a very big fear of missing...
