Kaz Cooke’s tips for helping toddlers understand emotions
Parents can encourage children to feel more confident, and to process their feelings, by helping them to identify, name and communicate their emotions.
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‘I was absolutely terrified of my daughter. I couldn’t pick her up’
To help spread awareness of perinatal depression and anxiety we have been publishing stories bravely written by women and men who have experienced PNDA. This is Kristal's story ...
‘I couldn’t sleep, I couldn’t eat and I just wanted to escape my mind’
To help spread awareness of perinatal depression and anxiety we have been publishing stories bravely written by women and men who have experienced PNDA. This is Tegan's story ...
‘I wish I knew’: kick-starting conversations about perinatal anxiety and depression
The theme of this year’s PANDA Week campaign is 'I wish I knew’, because many expecting and new mums and dads are surprised and shocked by how challenging becoming a parent can be.
How can you avoid ‘infertility overwhelm’?
If you asked me what my most frequent feeling has been while trying to conceive (TTC) I would say OVERWHELMED! Here are 4 ways to stop that overwhelmed feeling when you're TTC ...
5 tips to reduce your child’s exam anxiety
With the end of term just around the corner, our children are now busy preparing for their exams. Although the magnitude of exams vary from year to year, the pressure...
5 practical ways to prepare your child for primary school
Worried about how your child will handle school? Here are some practical ways you can prepare them for school before they start...
9 reasons to exercise during pregnancy
There are many benefits to exercising while pregnant. It can help manage your mood and pain. It can make you happy and can give you the energy to cope with the demands of pregnancy, labour and those first weeks with a new baby.
Tips for lessening the stress around sleep
Long stretches of uninterrupted sleep are not realistic when combined with the demands of a newborn baby. To expect a new mother and her infant to meet such a standard is setting them up for failure.
A celebration of fatherhood – with a twist
Autism doesn’t announce itself in the delivery room. You can’t detect it from a blood test or any type of pre-natal screening. In fact, children with autism are typically born...
