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Protecting people we love all the time or teaching them to protect themselves?

“I don’t want to take cash, can you transfer the money online to my account?” I asked a friend recently. “I will ask my dad to do it,”...

Daily arguments over fans/lights switched on in empty rooms

Disproportionate responses to people’s behaviour around us cause a lot of unpleasantness. When we are on the other side don’t we feel for...

Teaching loved ones to carry their umbrellas

Like Helicopter Parents, there are Helicopter Spouses and Helicopter Siblings too. “I have to enter the kitchen to do something and my...

Benign Negligence.

Laid Back parenting style Our parents stumbled into parenthood and then bumbled their way through it. For the most part, they left us to...

WHY IS MY CHILD Doing Such WILD THINGS? Have I Failed As A Parent?

I was talking to the mother of a teenage girl and the mother was very distraught that her daughter was doing things neither taught at...

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