Motherhood, mum, mother and all the associated words come with many images. Fabic Behaviour Specialist and Counsellor Tanya Curtis reveals more about the harm of these images and what a mother’s role is truly all about.
Promoting healthy eating behaviours is vital to your child’s development. Many parents can feel stuck with what to do when their ‘fussy’ child won’t eat. Parents often ask “is my child just picky with food or do they have an actual feeding problem?”.
Do foods really impact our moods? Fabic behaviour specialist and counsellor Tanya Curtis looks into the correlation.
Observing a playground full of children, it does not take long to identify a similar feel to a hospital and even an airport. How you may ask? Three vastly different places, how could they possibly be similar? Simple, all three places are filled with emotions of varying intensity from one spectrum to the other...
Our Australian culture is very much sports-orientated. It’s a culture that can start from the day a baby is born and is often carried throughout their life. But how far is too far when it comes to promoting a sports-oriented culture within your home?
More than any game, toy, food, material possession, praise or positive reinforcement, more than anything in this world, children want to be seen and confirmed for who they truly are.
What is love? This is quite a valid question this month as we go about flaunting our love for another on Valentine’s Day. But do we really know what it means?
It’s a common phenomenon that children seem to flourish in speech and communication development over the christmas holidays. So what’s the secret ingredient?
Whatever your age, we all have jobs in life. They might be trivial jobs that our parents assign us as kids, or they might be important jobs that our bosses and superiors assign us in the professional workplace. But what is your number 1 job in life?
Is perfectionism affecting your child? Do you even know the signs? Behaviour Specialist Tanya Curtis gives us the low down on what she describes as the ‘hidden epidemic’ impacting our kids - and even the adult population.
When your child gets to preschool or kinder, there may be some worry that they don't tick the boxes on developmental milestones. He or she is getting ready for school so we need to teach them the necessary skills to support their transition and learning.
From the outset of a baby being born we must be aware that children are easily influenced. Children of all ages including our babies and toddlers become aware of all that is around them and begin to sense the expectations of how they should be in life.
The milestone for a child's first words is 12 months. So what does it mean if your child has not begun speaking by then?
What does the role of Dad ask men to be? What impact does this have on all fathers in the world? Are our expectations causing undue stress and anxiety on fathers without us even realising?
How do we know when is the ‘right time’ to intervene in our children’s speech development or when do we leave our children to develop their sounds in their own time?
Anxiety in children is often unrecognised and misunderstood, yet it is affecting many children on different levels of intensity.
Going to public places can often be a nightmare for many parents due to their child being a 'runner'... running from shops, car parks, beaches, the park... in fact anywhere there is not a closed in space.
Too frequently we accept sibling rivalry as a norm – “That’s just what siblings do!” siblings sometimes fight, call each other names, are in competition with each other and can often be mean to each other. Why do we accept sibling rivalry as “just the way it is?”
Do I share the whole truth, partial truth or withhold the truth from my child?
Children tend to grow quickly from their cute toddler stage into young children, teens and beyond. As they develop, our way of being with them requires constant evaluating and modifying...
Starting the school year and school day can bring about a degree of anxiety for children - and frequently parents too.
Have you ever wondered why at the end of the festive season so many people are ‘relieved’ that ‘it’s all over for another year’?
It is not uncommon for children to be lied to by their parents...
How do I support my existing child to adapt to having a new family member?
I’m a dad. How do I show affection to my pubescent daughter?
Parties can sound very exciting but are they truly supportive?
Have you ever been in a shopping centre, or any public place for that matter, and your child has a meltdown? It’s like ... OMG, how embarrassing! But where does this embarrassment come from?
Is it possible that the human body instinctively knows what it will respond positively to and what it will respond negatively to?
Q: How can I support my child to get their emotions under control?
There is a very big difference between being ‘strict’ and ‘teaching responsibility’.