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What’s your parenting style?
Every person has a parenting style that is influenced partly by their personality and partly by the parenting (or lack of parenting) they experienced. Most people either decide to parent the way they...
View ArticlePlay Dough Recipe
Play Dough: Ingredients quarter cup salt 2 cups water 2 cups of flour 4 table spoons of cream of tartar 2 table spoons oil Method Mix the salt and water together on a stove on medium heat in a heavy...
View ArticleBuilding character in children
Consider character traits like, integrity, honesty, punctuality, good manners, and patience. Don’t we all want our children to grow up having these characteristics? How do we as parents accomplish...
View ArticleHolidays and travel charts
Here are some lovely holiday ideas from my wonderful daughter in-law Geneva: “I find the kids need to know what they can expect of me in long holidays. I make them tokens. For example: 2 X TV slots, 3X...
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Hosting a Munchkins Talk
If you’ve ever attended a talk by Andalene Salvesen (a.k.a. Super Granny) or Celeste Rushby (qualified Occupational Therapist and Munchkins Coach) you will know it is a life changing experience. They...
View ArticleGoodbye Winter Bugs! Natural Remedies for Children
Every year we’re dealt a dose of those old winter bugs that bring the common cold and chesty coughs to our normally healthy children. Sometimes, we’re bewildered that our child has picked up a dreaded...
View ArticleParenting is…
…messy There, I said it! Do I feel better having admitted it? That one is a bit harder to answer. It depends on a wide selection of variants, including, but not limited to random little ankle biters,...
View ArticleGetting to know Celeste Rushby: Qualified OT and Munchkins Parenting Coach
We recently had the privilege to find a (very tight) spot in Celeste Rushby’s diary. Celeste dons quite a couple of hats and can keep more balls in the air than a professional juggler. She is a wife,...
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Munchkins Online Short Courses in Parenting
Are you a busy parent? You can now become an empowered parent in the privacy of your own home (and in your own time) with the help of international parenting coach Andalene Salvesen (aka Super Granny),...
View ArticleThe Value of Grandparents
“Connections between generations are essential for mental health and the stability of a nation.” ~ Margaret Mead, Anthropologist. There is absolutely no doubt that grandparents engender a tremendous...
View ArticleThe Peace in the Home Diagram
Inspired by Professor Johan Mostert’s (PhD, AOG Seminary, Springfield Missouri) book, Kinders, Tieners en Soortgelyke Rampe (which can roughly be translated as Children, Teenagers and Similar...
View ArticleNew-year, blah blah …
I never really ‘’got’’ all the ‘’new-year, new you’’ banter. Don’t get me wrong. Having goals (or resolutions, as we call them around new-year) are fine, even necessary. But there is a distinct...
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WHICH day is it?
HEY, YOU! Yes, you: with the five bags slung over your shoulders, balancing your coffee (aka life elixir) travel mug in one pinkie and your car keys in the other, while herding the toddler and carrying...
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Travelling with Children and Holidays
A few fabulous ideas to get you thinking on how to be creative and engage your children this holiday! Travel – Under 6 Ensure children not overtired or hungry before you start the journey – overtired...
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Book review: Raising Happy, Healthy Children
Review by Ellie Salkeld, Events Organiser and Book Reviewer for TwinsPlus Arabia. This book: Raising Happy, Healthy Children, by Sallie-Ann Creed (a clinical nutritionist) and Andalene Salvesen (Super...
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Nutrition Knock-Ons
When it comes to mothering styles, I’m more like Bridget Jones than Gisele Bundchen. I don’t work on a balanced meal plan for the week, and I don’t make achingly beautiful organic moss and bark...
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Mom vs. Dad: the winning recipe
Why there’s no such thing as friendly fire A recent YouTube advert made use of the hackneyed Battle of the Sexes cliché to sell a detergent. Dad said he was better than Mom, and Mom insisted that she...
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Chores in the home
I am often posed with the question of whether children should be involved in chores in the home. My answer is always a resounding “Yes!” But, before I answer this question I think we should clarify...
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Surviving the Holidays with your Munchkin
It is often the case that children cannot wait for the school holidays to start and parents for it to finish. Many a parent has wondered how their little angels turned into the Grinch who stole...
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Filling your Munchkin’s Love Tank with the Right Fuel
“Love is all you need” may not be too far from the truth when it gets to what children require to grow up soundly (obviously within a healthy environment, together with firm discipline). However, the...
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