Parenting

3 Mar 2013

I commend you for publishing details on how technology can help co-parenting within divorced or separated families for the benefit of the children involved. The article cites Google Calendar,...

Book review: Raising Girls, by Steve Biddulph

24 Feb 2013

Fifteen years ago, according to Australian child psychologist Steve Biddulph, girls were "on the move, going places, focused and confident", while boys were "somehow all wrong".

Up close & personal: finding your place in your child's affections

24 Feb 2013

"I love you daddy," my son told me the other week. It was a heart-warming moment. That is, until he went on to list everyone else he loved

Rookie Mum: sibling jealousy

24 Feb 2013

Recently, we held a children's party, which was a great success. However, one person seemed a little less than enthralled by the event - my 18-month-old son, Tom.

Insight: when mothers are jealous of helpers

24 Feb 2013

Recently, a young mother shared with me her struggles to control her envy of the close relationship her foreign domestic helper has with her one-year-old son.

Opinion

Wang Xiangwei

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Keeping Lunar New Year traditions alive

Photographer Simon Go Man-ching has an annual ritual: when Lunar New Year looms, he takes his young daughter Queenie to Yau Ma Tei for a trawl through the confectionary and dried seafood shops.

Class Action: when parents' fears stand in the way of a child's school trip

My daughter is going on a five-day school residential trip this term. Her best friend's parents will not let their daughter attend even though she desperately wants to go. I feel sorry for her as...

Relationships: routines after separation

Young children don't like change, especially at times of uncertainty and major upheaval in their lives - they want and need all the routines for them to feel safe.

PARENTING

How to bridge that gap with your children

Imagine the literary masterpieces the world would never know if children grew up seeing eye-to-eye with their parents (Romeo who?). It's a truism as old as time that kids will spend many of their...

LEARNING CURVE

Learning Curve: Coping with job loss

In my experience, student behaviour and academic performance that rouses concern can often be linked to problems at home.

HEALTH BITES

Health bites

A new study suggests that most infants who wake up crying in the middle of the night are best left to self-soothe and fall back to sleep on their own.