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Edited extract from Sleep First by Dr Jemma King Some of the most common sleep disorders are sleep apnoea, REM sleep behaviour disorder, narcolepsy and sexsomnia, though there are many more. These seemingly rare sleep disorder curiosities are actually common conditions affecting millions worldwide. Yet 80–90 per cent are reported to remain undiagnosed, their symptoms dismissed as stress, ageing, depression or laziness. Sleep disorders don’t often announce themselves clearly.
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The nature of children’s health around the world is changing. There is now a ‘new morbidity’ occurring, with obesity, mental health conditions, self-harm and suicide taking centre stage. Having worked as a teacher and guidance counsellor for the past 25 years I have had a front row seat watching the dramatic rise in anxiety disorders, depression and suicide affecting our kids.
15 Ways to Help Raise Compassionate Children
Compassion is defined as the sympathetic concern for another’s suffering or misfortune. Children’s brains do not develop the ability feel malice or ill feelings until the age of 8 years of age. That said, they are naturally loving and compassionate, we just need to ensure we stay committed to helping them develop compassion in this busy fast paced digital age.
How To Help Your Late Walker Take Their First Independent Steps
A child’s first independent steps are a momentous milestone for any parent. While most children begin walking between nine and eighteen months, some take a little longer. If your child is approaching or surpassing 18 months without walking independently, you may feel a mix of anticipation and concern. However, there’s good news—later walkers often develop excellent coordination, balance, and confidence before they take off. With the right encouragement, they’ll get there in their own time.
Fostering An Attitude Of Gratitude
Three Strategies to Foster Gratitude and Resilience in Children One of the most common concerns I have heard from parents is that this generation of children can sometimes seem amazingly ungrateful for all that is done for them. We’ve all met kids who want everything ‘their way’ and expect things to be provided for them on a silver platter.
Optimize Your Mental Health During the Christmas Season: A Simple Guide
The Christmas season is a time of joy and celebration, but it can also bring stress and anxiety. While the festive lights and holiday songs create an atmosphere of happiness, the pressure to make everything perfect can feel overwhelming. This guide provides simple and fun ways to maintain your mental health and enjoy the holiday season without feeling overwhelmed. 1. Acknowledge Your Emotions Recognizing your feelings is the first step to positive mental health during the holidays.
Plan Ahead for Your Dream Christmas/Summer Family Holiday
Are you planning a family holiday this Christmas or future summers and want to stretch your finances as far as possible? As a Travel and Cash Flow Coach, I help families make the most of their travel budgets, and I’ve put together my top 10 tips to help you enjoy a dream getaway over summer without financial stress. Plan Your Finances Early: The key to affording a great holiday is starting your saving early.
Are Your Child’s Emotions Getting In The Way Of Their Success?
by Dr. Scott Zarcinas Emotions should come with some kind of warning when we are born, and the warning should be: Buyer beware—emotions are powerful! Emotions can be the fuel driving you toward success, or they can be the flames burning your hopes and dreams to the spot. Negative emotions are especially powerful, such as fear, anger, hate, and greed. To harbour and encourage these emotions, however, is to harbour and encourage failure.
How to manage emotions as a new mother
Managing the rollercoaster of emotions in early motherhood can feel like a daunting task. There is so much adjustment, learning and surrender that is required and often very little support available to navigate the massive changes that this phase brings. Yet emotions act like a gauge, keeping us aware of what works, what doesn’t, where our needs are met and where they aren’t.
The importance of teaching our kids to be kind to animals
As a wee tot, I can still remember my mum whispering “be kind” as my hand stretched out to pet our family cat, Tiny. Sage words that still guide my hand and heart today, reminding that every being who treads, swims or flies upon this earth wants, needs and responds to kindness. Because although they may look different on the outside, inside we are all the same.
Empower Your Child’s Potential: Welcome to the World of Unicorn Academy
What if you’re destined for something extraordinary? Envision a world where magic thrives, friendships flourish, and each day unfolds as an adventure. If you still need to explore the enchantment of Unicorn Academy, allow us to introduce you.
Parenting Tips for Building Essential Skills in Children
Your child needs resiliency, authenticity, and an entrepreneurial spirit to succeed in life. Unfortunately, our system is not set up to give your child these gifts. We are starting to see the product of this through the increased rates of anxiety, depression, and mental health challenges in children. As parents, you want something different and better for your child.
Fostering Childhood Independence
Children love being independent. We see this when babies try to spoon-feed themselves, toddlers demand to dress themselves and pre-schoolers want to help with household chores. Young children love to do things for themselves even when it makes life harder for parents. As parents, we often groan when we think of the kids wanting to dress themselves, do up their shoelaces, or prepare a snack because it will take twice as long when they do it and frequently be way messier.
Building Confidence Through Emotional Awareness
While kids are growing up, it can be difficult for them to feel confident. But there are things parents can do to support their emotional growth and build confidence. Your children’s ability to grow emotionally resilient is assisted by your efforts to help them become emotionally aware. Building confidence in our kids starts with enhancing this emotional awareness.
Twin Dads | Kiddipedia
Being a dad to twins is just as hard as being a mum to twins. You may not have had to go through the birth yourself – although you were likely in the room for it. You may not be struggling with excess weight or having to breastfeed, but there are still plenty of changes going on for you and things that are out of your control. The first few months for parents of twins are hard and getting use to the changes in your life can take time.
5 Lessons for a tidier home, that even your toddler can understand
Maintaining a home that is tidy but functional is something everyone needs to be jointly invested in. If it is one person in charge it will become too big a task and it will likely not happen, more likely creating frustration and resentment across the home. But when it comes to mess, our kids are capable of more than we think. That is, provided we set them up with structures and age-appropriate expectations.
Managing Finances for a Family
Managing finances for a family, especially with young children aged between 2 and 5, can be a challenging yet rewarding experience. With the added expenses of childcare, education, and daily living, coupled with the responsibility of a mortgage, it’s essential to find a balance that allows for both current financial stability and future growth. It is important to have strategies in place to ensure that you keep making forward momentum with your money in these times.
Debunking Myths Of Child Sexual Abuse
If parents knew what I knew, they would do things differently with their kids’. That is the thought that runs excessively through my mind after 10 years as a specialist child interviewer and a detective, interviewing victims and investigating cases of child sexual abuse. After 10 years, I can categorically say that ‘yes’ we need to be keeping an eye out for strangers outside of our homes and networks, but we should be closely watching the people in our own backyards, lives and homes.
Paid Family Medical Leave Invests in People; New Mexico's Small Businesses and Nonprofits Need It
Over my years working in HR, I’ve seen the inner workings of small businesses and nonprofits. I know the nerves that can come with checking the bank balance to see if there is enough to make payroll. I know how being down a staff member unexpectedly can throw a wrench in operations. These are real struggles that small businesses face. I’ve also seen the power of having a great team that helps develop, grow, and innovate the business or organization. Who makes up great teams? Humans.
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Paid Family Medical Leave invests in people; New Mexico's small businesses and nonprofits need it
Over my years working in HR, I've seen the inner workings of small businesses and nonprofits. I know the nerves that can come with checking the bank balance to see if there is enough to make payroll. I know how being down a staff member unexpectedly can throw a wrench in operations. These are real struggles that small businesses face. I've also seen the power of having a great team that helps develop, grow, and innovate the business or organization. Who makes up great teams? Humans.
How to declutter your children’s toy collection
Jean Bailliard, General Manager of TerraCycle ANZ Accumulating toys and new playthings is pretty much inevitable over the Christmas and summer holidays. We all like to reward and treat our kids and provide them with fun and educational sources of entertainment. And toys and playtime are an essential part of the growth and development of our children. But giving our little ones an abundance of toys can have its downsides.
After-School Safety: Tips for Parents
Prepping for a busy school day can get pretty hectic for any parent, especially if you have more than three kids. In the early morning rush, it’s easy to forget about some school safety preparations that will ensure your family is protected from any potential hazards. How can you keep your children safe when they’re going about their school day? Read on to learn about some vital back to school safety tips.
Managing meltdowns
As parents, we all dread that moment. Without warning, your child throws themself on the ground – screaming, crying and losing all control – and despite our heartfelt attempts at reasoning, we are at an absolute loss to calm them down. One big cause of outbursts is when kids get stuck on one idea, one desire, or one solution. Things escalate when their desires cannot be met. They can also struggle when something needs to change unexpectedly.
8 Essential Time Management Tips To Keep In Mind Over 2024
Since the dawn of the ages, mums and dads have been asking the same question: How do I manage my time with kids? Sharpening your time management skills is essential. It’s the difference between collapsing face-first into your pillow at the end of a gruellingly tiresome day, and sinking your head back with a contented smile. Developing a tried and true method for managing your time can be a challenging endeavour. After all, where do you begin?
How your baby’s hands can help with breastfeeding
Are your baby’s hands getting in the way as you try to breastfeed? Have you been told to wrap your baby for feeds? Although the advice to wrap babies like a tiny burrito for feeds was common practice years ago, this advice is now very outdated and for good reason. Covering your baby’s hands can make feeding more difficult, especially for newborns who are learning to latch at the breast.
3 Gift-Giving Tips for more “Happy” on a Budget
If you’re a parent, it’s likely that you’re about to start embarking on the annual gift-buying ritual; trawling the latest catalogues, strolling the toy aisles at your local department store; frantically searching for the latest branded merch that will deliver before Christmas. So, here’s the bad news. All of that effort – and financial pain – simply may not be worth it.
Why We Need To Talk To Our Kids About Secrets
Secrets – Why teach it? Secrets. It’s a tricky topic. We encourage our kids to tell the truth, to value honesty and maybe even that telling secrets is rude.. but the truth is, we need to talk to our kids about secrets because there are different kinds of secrets.. There are secrets that are happy and fun and make us feel excited, and There might be secrets that make us feel confused, yukky, nervous or sad. Talking to kids about secrets is a Child Protection issue.
Can an Executor be a Power of Attorney?
One of the biggest misconceptions when it comes to Executors and Power of Attorney is that lots of people think they’re the same thing. Many think that the person they appoint as their Executor will automatically also be their Power of Attorney, and that that person will be able to make decisions on your behalf if you’re unable to. But this isn’t true at all. Some also assume that their partner or spouse will automatically be their Power of Attorney or Executor should something happen to them.
Helping Children With Anger and Aggression
As children grow their outward expression of frustration becomes more controlled because their brain has matured. They become more and more capable of having their tears and thoughts on the inside and using their words to express how they feel and what they need. They no longer have to physically act out, or cry in response to every frustration in order to move through it. An angry child is often just scared, they don’t feel safe or calm enough to find the words to tell you how they feel.
10 Ways to Cope with the Rising Cost of Living as a Single Mum
We are all feeling the pinch. There are words that are getting thrown around in the media as well as amongst our circle of family, friends and work colleagues that are forcing us to look closely at our cost of living, our budget, expenses and income. Inflation Recession Rising Interest rates Global Financial Crisis Rising Cost of Living For some, it’s a real, everyday concern. For others, it may be fear-mongering.
Childhood Depression
What is depression? Depression is a low mood that impacts everyday functioning, such as engagement in social interests, home life, leisure activities, and school life that cannot be attributed to an underlying medical condition or other mental health condition. The low mood persists across weeks or years. In children, it can look different, and children may not be able to articulate their mood and so parents can look for these signs of depression.
The Importance of Sleep!
For top tips, recipes, expert advice, health and wellbeing support and advice, look no further than our awesome parenting blogs curated by Kiddipedia! Sleep plays a very important role in our development, physical health and mental wellbeing. It is so important that on average, we sleep for one third of our lives! But it’s important to know the signs when a child may not be getting enough sleep.
Remote Work Only Works If You Keep Enough People Out of the Office
In talking about the vision for a hybrid future, there’s one line I keep hearing over and over. “Time in the office will be used for collaboration and strengthening relationships.” Except, that approach will undercut the very things it was meant to support. In November of 2019, I moved away from the state where my company is headquartered. I stayed on with the same organization, mostly working from my living room but traveling into the office for a few days a month.
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