How You Can Help Soothe Your Child’s Pain Pain, much like fever, is not a disease, but a symptom alerting one to an underlying problem. That’s why you should be guided by common sense and the presence of additional symptoms like fever, when assessing the need for medical attention [...]
Away With Postnatal Emotional Problems It’s normal to experience a bit of emotional upheaval when a baby is born. Most women get ‘baby blues’ or ‘third day blues’ a few days after giving birth and have a week or two of increased anxiety and emotionality before things return to [...]
Here’s How To Stress Less About Children’s Behaviour A tot runs around the movie theatre screaming and people mutter, ‘What terrible parents he has!’ Fair or not, our parenting skills are often judged on how our tots behave. No wonder behaviour is the third of parents’ Big Three stresses, [...]
A Broken Home Should Not Mean A Broken Child South Africa is unfortunate enough to have one of the highest separation and divorce rates in the Western world. This inevitably sees many children hailing from ‘broken’ homes. I put ‘broken’ in inverted commas, because although almost anything is [...]
