If you're starting to feel anxious and you've got ten seconds to spare, try naming as many ice cream flavours as you can. 

This month's issue of Prevention magazine says that this simple task, uses a technique known as 'grounding', which can help bring your brain a...

Every now and then there’s a movie that puts a fire in my soul.  

“Hidden Figures” is one of those. It seems to go from strength to strength, honouring equal rights, step parents and good leadership just to touch on a few.

And while I was truly touched by the scene at th...

Most of my friends have had the experience of consoling me after I have been dealing with my daughter’s strength. “The force is strong with this one” seems to be a blissful statement that doesn’t even begin to touch on her perception of her capabilities.

I was fighting...

If you have children who attend a particular Gold Coast private school, you know about the Lion at the front of the school. I noticed this week that his back is becoming shiny and smooth from all the attention he gets on a very regular basis.  Our children call him Asl...

It was worth the wait. 5 years and nearly 1 month it took. But there were definitely moments, when it didn’t seem that way. Let me explain.

My eldest child is a very, very picky eater. Same routine as usual, before I had my own children, I insisted that these children w...

3 simple words.

Could have gone either way.

But I’m happy to say it went smoothly.

I was at the local pool the other day with my two small children and they were exuberantly playing in the toddler pool. Splashing around there were giggles aplenty. And….they were outnumber...