Renee to talk on ‘Smacking’ on ABC Local Radio on Monday 9th April at 1pm

Tune in to ABC Local Radio on Monday, April 9th at 1pm for the ‘Easter Afternoon with Aaron Kearney’ program. Renee will be part of a panel discussion on smacking. Check your local ABC radio station for your bandwidth.  For Sydney listeners, it’s 702 on the AM band

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Fair Fighting Rules

It is probably impossible for two people, who live work or interact with one another, not to have conflict sooner or later. Conflict is not necessarily bad and can lead to good outcomes if conducted fairly. Here are some fair fighting rules: Stay in the present. Don’t dredge up things from the past or predict [...]

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French children don’t throw food

A new book has criticised hands-on parenting techniques. Pamela Druckerman, author of French Children Don’t Throw Food, laments her baby girl’s inability to sit up at a dinner table as opposed to the obedient French children who sit upright and silent as they delicately eat their fish and chips. Druckerman’s book comes hot on the [...]

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Helicopter parents

Barely a day goes by in the media without a piece scoffing at ‘‘helicopter parents’’, child kings and attachment parenting. The argument goes that our desire to be good parents has led to a generation of narcissistic, obese, rude and badly behaved children. Studies evaluating parenting styles and their results do not confirm this argument. [...]

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