The book for parents who want to get the joy back in their lives
Parenting with Soul won’t tell you what to believe, but it will show you how to make spirituality part of your family’s life. It’s about seeing the sacred in our homes and turning the things we do each...
View ArticleNana envy
I have a bad case of Nana envy this week. It’s all my friends’ fault. Friend number one – let’s call her Snow White – is heading off for a week’s skiing in Falls Creek. She tells me that they have...
View ArticleThe inspiration of parents
I’ve just uploaded some new videos to my YouTube channel. Here’s one on the things that inspired me when I was writing Parenting with Soul. (Speaking of inspiring, these videos were created with the...
View ArticleDo we have a blinkered view of our children?
Sometimes I think all children have double identities. There’s the ‘at home’ child, the one the parents know and love, and there’s the ‘out in the world’ child, the one that the rest of us see. Here’s...
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Being perfect, being present and breaking down the barriers
I’ve just put three new videos about the ideas behind Parenting with Soul up on YouTube. They’re seriously short (less than a minute each) and each will give you a taste of soul: check them out....
View ArticleSmug mum – are you one?
Smug, smug, smug – it’s one of those words that the more you say it, the stranger it sounds. What is it about human nature that means we feel better about ourselves when we hear about someone else...
View ArticleLove and loss
In the Dec 11/Jan 12 issue of Melbourne’s Child, I write about what it was like to be struck by grief from two directions just after my first child was born. The morning after my first daughter was...
View ArticleThe wise night owl and the easy sleeper
I do wonder who is raising whom, sometimes. My elder child is a night owl (or “night hour”, as she would say). Sleep has never come easily for her; she seems to fight it, and we’ve wrestled through...
View ArticleLove and loss
The morning after my first daughter was born, my father came to visit us at the hospital. He brought a stuffed Winnie the Pooh toy for his new granddaughter. I loved that, especially because I remember...
View ArticleThe Simple Things
I have to come clean — I am no domestic goddess. There are days when I get caught up in the consumer frenzy: I succumb to over-packaged frivolities in the supermarket aisles; I call for takeaway...
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