Parenting

Celebrating Halloween in the Shire is growing in popularity each year. We are now…

All stage of parenting come with their challenges. The lack of sleep associated with the newborn stage. Followed by the getting into everything when they learn to crawl stage. Then there is the falling over and bumping their head stage as they learn to walk. Which sets us up for the terrible twos.

• Guest post by a local dad of a two year old boy • Now…

Today we have a guest post from Cath. A Shire local all her life who now called Como home with her husband and two daughters, aged three and one.

A parent’s instinct is often the best measure of when something is not quite right. I see it time and again in our clinic, families are told by friends and family that there is “nothing wrong” and that “kids develop different”

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All children are responsible for teaching their parents how they should sleep. Pre-children, your parents would have developed certain sleep habits (such as sleeping six to eight hours straight) and certain sleep associations (such as sleeping in an adult bed, either alone or with a maximum of one other person at a time). It is your job to re-train them to sleep in a manner more suitable to their most important role: being your parents.

Here’s how watching my kids for inspiration and following their lead has taught me how to have more fun with them..

What’s better than escaping the house and getting out in nature with your kiddies? Playing outdoors and in nature is more than just fun for our kids..

As parents, when we decide to have a baby we don’t often think about how these cute little beings will affect our lives.