Blog Feed: SuperParents

I remember a cosmetic surgeon client of mine talk about how mothers came to him looking for cosmetic surgery and his ‘pyschiatrist-with-a-scalpel services’. He said there comes a point in time when mothers decide that it’s ‘t > read more

What to say to Unreasonable … or Asian Parents

Published on 2011-07-04 16:40:18

I got heckled by my sister in law over the weekend for being a pushy Asian parent. She caught wind that I held the children back from school last week because of an impending storm, and then it surfaced that I … ahem, ran my son through ‘ > read more

@SakuraOddie and her 7 Golden Rules to Achieving Balance

Published on 2011-06-13 16:30:35

Here’s a confession – I’m a big sucker for a good profile picture! Profile pictures which suck me in are those where I can see a person’s eyes, or when the light plays over hair and face. For Sakura Oddie, it was her simple bl > read more

@PrueMacSween Never Figured On Children Being Part of the Mix

Published on 2011-06-12 16:30:42

Last week, I tweet for ideas for a work/life balance post, and out-of-the-blue, one of my recent followers on Twitter comes back to me saying she might have something interesting for me. What drew my attention to this particular twitterer was that sh > read more

Break Free from Stereotypes for Your Child’s Health

Published on 2011-06-09 16:30:50

Today’s guest post is from ex-teacher Aaron, who intrigued me with his proposal for a guest post. While I know one of the main issues being discussed these days is the health of our kids, Aaron’s talk about the effect of stereotypes on ch > read more

Teachers Do Everything and Nothing for Your Child

Published on 2011-06-07 16:30:12

How much can a teacher do for your child? Apart from preparation and delivering formal lessons, they have to manage the ability of 30 or so other children. They’ve got to deal with administration and reporting, and bring home your tests and hom > read more

How Mothers Make it So Much Worse

Published on 2011-06-02 16:45:03

I’m on the Digital Parents forum reading about a particular bloggers financial problem, and what strikes me is a comment which says “One phone call from my mother and everything feels a million times worse.” Want to hear my story? I > read more

Betrayed and Sexually Assaulted by Doctor

Published on 2011-05-31 16:45:48

Women in tears at sexual assault trial as reported by Perth Now is about a woman alleging a Perth doctor inappropriately handled a medical examination, sexually assaulting her and asked her “inappropriate questions.” You go to a medical p > read more

A Parenting ‘Must Do’

Published on 2011-05-30 16:45:34

Andrea from Good Beginnings contacted me about this national charity building better outcomes for children in vulnerable communities through effective early intervention programs. Not often do we get to use our blogs to help children in need, so I ho > read more

The Not-So-Nice Truth About Men

Published on 2011-05-22 16:30:35

Most men could tell you about the way all men think about women, but they won’t. What I’m referring to is that one thing on all their minds – essentially YOU, of course. Or really it could be any female persons with the right workin > read more

What Can I Really Do For My Child?

Published on 2011-05-17 16:30:41

A story in The Australian yesterday is breaking news for parents as “auther of a new book says genetics … have a bigger effect on success” … that is, bigger effect on success than the meager effort you’ve taken for your > read more

This Idiot Hurt My Children!

Published on 2011-05-15 16:30:19

The proprietor was an elderly gent. After setting up my children, my niece and nephew with their arts and craft projects, he paced back and forth tending to his own things. They were all left happily working on their individual projects on their benc > read more

May Blog Carnival

Published on 2011-05-10 16:45:46

Welcome to the first Digital Parents bloggers’ carnival since re-branding of AMB! Here it is folks, this will be the location of the Digital Parents May Blog Carnival featuring the best of our favourite posts Australia-wide from April 2011! The > read more

Teens Out of Control

Published on 2011-05-03 16:45:06

When I say teens are scary, what I mean is that it’s scary how stupid they are. We all know this to be a fact, yet fair few of us rely on anything more than the same tried-and-true tactics, parental controls, and reactionary approaches – > read more

Rated PG Tween: No more a Boy. Not yet a Man.

Published on 2011-05-02 16:45:47

Movie ratings help adults gauge the appropriateness of movies for younger children. But there comes a time when you soon realise PG and PG-13 movie ratings will fail you. For instance, I have noticed that my son has been devouring movies and is impat > read more

Instant Gratification Tests for Children

Published on 2011-04-18 17:00:20

Over and over again, the trappings of modern life come in direct conflict with my role as parent. The media crap children have to put up with set my teeth on edge. And yet all the hype then says innovation is the way to go; multi-tasking and gadgets > read more

SuperParents in the News

Published on 2011-04-17 16:30:48

What an Effort to Get Children Involved had a warm introduction for Raising Children Network’s Charissa Feng whom posted a series of articles through SuperParents. It was through Charissa’s recommendation that reporter Andrea Mayes contac > read more

What an Effort to Get Children Involved

Published on 2011-04-13 16:45:46

Getting your child to help with household chores takes even more effort than if you were to complete the task by yourself. But look at it as an opportunity to work side-by-side with your kids and a chance to share with them life skills, and you will > read more

I’m 40 and I Haven’t Bought a House

Published on 2011-04-11 16:30:57

I interviewed Alli Price for the first time in @motivatingmum and participated in her Mummy Mentoring Event with my post ‘Three Lessons to Help You Go For It’. Today, she talks about the decisions she’s made for her family, and how they di > read more

We’re Staying Together For the Children

Published on 2011-04-11 00:15:35

Divorce is a dirty word. Other equally awful terms in my book are: alimony, co-parenting, visiting rights, and custody. These terms are literally the open can of worms and come replete with the worse behaviour that regular civilians are often seen en > read more

The Butt of Bitchiness

Published on 2011-04-07 16:45:01

So mums are the butt of bitchiness whether they stay at home or go to work. See the following link for the article on news.com.au on the insults working mums have to face, and the surprising revelation that this problem comes from other mums! Insults > read more

The Unofficial AMB Perth Blogger Meetup #AMBPerth

Published on 2011-04-05 20:32:46

The Unofficial Aussie Mummy Bloggers Perth Chapter is coordinating another meetup May 6 2011. Wooooooooot!!! I have previously hosted private meetups for AMB members; all which have been quite well received an > read more

A Mother is More than a Woman

Published on 2011-04-03 21:37:09

Why would women need to read a book on how other high flying women make it when it is clear that it should be aimed towards men. Yes, men! I’m talking about Jessica Rowe’s recently launched book Love Wisdom Motherhood. The book, a project > read more

Stupidest Parenting Advice

Published on 2011-03-31 16:30:13

Happy April Fool’s Day, kiddos! Today’s post is no joke. It’s compare ‘Stupidest Parenting Advice’ time! And co-posting with me is fellow Mummy Blogger Julie Cottle from Natural Transition who responded to my tweet askin > read more

Even Parents Can Get Bullied

Published on 2011-03-30 00:03:14

I recently had a riveting conversation with one of the mums at my children’s Judo class. She was telling me of a bad run in with her children’s former coach which forced her to pull her entire family out of that club to avoid the hostility of > read more

How Your Children Learn About Money

Published on 2011-03-27 21:49:21

Today’s guest author Andre contacted me after reading my Tiger Parenting series, and found that a compliment paid will get you anywhere … especially when requesting guest slots on this blog! What I liked about Andre is that he took the ti > read more

It’s Okay to Hit Bullies

Published on 2011-03-24 22:33:17

My newest blogging friend Sarah Graham from Our Mid Life Crisis was reviewing recent events in State of Shock – and touched on the recent youtube clip on bullying that has gone viral. In the video, you see the victim Casey fight back, picking u > read more

Unleash Your Child’s Imagination

Published on 2011-03-23 00:05:16

This post is part of Deb Hodgkin’s @sciencemum highly successful Teach/Learn Carnival. March’s theme is Imagination. If you would like to join in submit your own post here, or check back at the end of the month for the links to lots of gr > read more

Releasing the Mummy Blogger in You

Published on 2011-03-20 23:39:48

This article was written March 20 2011 on the plane returning to Perth after an immense weekend attending Aussie Bloggers Conference 2011. ‘Releasing the Mummy Blogger in You’ I was there! I attended the inaugural Aussie Bloggers Conferen > read more

The Kids After the Tsunami

Published on 2011-03-17 00:00:33

News of the Tsunami in Sendai has been prevalent everywhere, especially in my tv room. Discussion of global tragedy too has been picked up by my children, who have commented about the rate that natural disasters are occurring. When my eldest boy w > read more

Emotional about Intelligence

Published on 2011-03-16 22:44:47

Have you ever dealt with a switched on tween? You know, the kid who seems aware about everything? Who picks up new skills with surprising quickness. Who processes maths as fast as or faster than adults. The one who is labelled as ‘The Golden > read more

The Perfect Child

Published on 2011-03-15 21:38:14

What would the perfect child be for you … Smart? Engaging? Fun? Passionate? Sporty? Humourous? Nutritionally unfussed? Blond hair, blue eyes, etc. What would you do for your perfect child? How will you guide him? Nurture him? Love him. I’ > read more

Bring Family Members Closer Together

Published on 2011-03-14 17:45:47

SuperParents is collaborating with the Raising Children Network, an Australian parenting website supported by the Australian government, over three months to feature fortnightly installments focusing on parenting issues. Please help me welcome them t > read more

Separation Anxiety

Published on 2011-03-14 00:28:32

Who’s really getting the separation anxiety? My 6yo baby or me? The street-smart, tough-as-nails, special forces girl has left for a 3d 2n school camp today. Can you believe what they get 6yos to do nowadays? From all accounts (my son went to t > read more

SuperParenting

Published on 2011-03-10 23:25:28

Just talking with a former business associate who’s always on the look out for the ‘next thing.’ And when I mentioned that SuperParents has in excess of 300 articles, he was quick to ask if there was a possibility to come up with a > read more

My School Website 2.0

Published on 2011-03-09 16:45:20

Today we’ve got my good friend Kelly Burstow from Be a Fun Mum guest posting for our Perspectives in Education series. I’ve not previously posted on this topic, but I have certainly collided with the issue halfway through my tenure as Board > read more

Going Behind-the-Scenes of Teacher Training

Published on 2011-03-08 16:45:44

Today we’ve got a guest post to add to our Perspectives in Education series. I’ve been waiting to get my Twitter friend @Jane_ym of Tea and Vegemite Toast to add to this series. Jane, whom I know as an exercise fiend, soup lover and teach > read more

Your Children Will Keep Secrets from You

Published on 2011-03-02 20:53:25

A Note to My Future Teenager on Keeping Secrets I know what you are doing. While you’re not really keeping secrets from me, you’re not sharing very much information either. You open up only enough so that I’ll stop prying. It’ > read more

Parents – Leave Your Work at the Office

Published on 2011-02-28 16:45:00

Reward Kids Doing the Right Thing

Published on 2011-02-24 17:00:29

Reward Kids Doing the Right Thing Kids seem to trip up, play up and mess up wherever they go. However well-behaved your kids are, it’s inevitable that they’re going to be inquisitive and energetic. And when they play, they might get hurt, bre > read more

10 Things I’ve Enjoyed with Blogging

Published on 2011-02-21 20:54:05

When We Dig Deep: The Tiger Mother series I pulled off recently which started with Why Chinese Mothers Have to Feel Superior featured four online friends and guest posters who dug deep, and gave a very personal view of Tiger Mothers that contrasted w > read more

Stop using that Parenting Book as a Crutch

Published on 2011-02-20 16:45:56

The few parenting books I’ve read have been fairly good. At a time when you’re grasping for help, dealing with poo-ey nappies, sleep deprived, wired on coffee and going through the same mind-numbing chores every day, the help and prompts > read more

Reading Between the Tantrums

Published on 2011-02-15 16:45:37

Reading Between the Tantrums by Zoey Martin Recently I’ve been introduced to tantrums. Real tantrums. Exorcist style, blood-curdling scream tantrums. Not the other kind. The reduced into a puddle of tears kind of tantrums. Those tantrums that I > read more

Parents Returning to Work

Published on 2011-02-14 16:45:33

SuperParents is happy to announce a three month long collaboration with the Raising Children Network, an Australian parenting website supported by the Australian government. Their fortnightly installments with us will focus on parenting issues. I hig > read more

Capping Off the Tiger Series

Published on 2011-02-13 19:10:30

This guest post by Kelly Burstow http://www.beafunmum.com caps off a week featuring four posts discussing Amy Chua’s Tiger Mother article. I have been blown away with the insight from the guest posters in the series, and the collection weR > read more

Perth Bloggers Touch Base with Mother Ship

Published on 2011-02-10 22:07:55

It was fantastic to have another get together for mummy bloggers in Perth. We had the first of 2011 yesterday with local mummy bloggers Glowless, Felicakes, Rachelf_78, MissyBoo and SuperParents (the one associate woman in the group). The group touch > read more

Tales of a Former Tiger Mother by @rachelf_78

Published on 2011-02-09 16:45:14

I feel honoured to have the bloggers featured this week open their hearts out, and give us a fantastic insight into this Tiger Mother phenomenon. I must also express my appreciation to all three for their sharing their first-ever guest post here > read more

My ‘Chinese Mother’ is Different by @felicakes

Published on 2011-02-08 16:45:08

Why Chinese Mothers Have to Feel Superior, my rebuttal of Amy Chua’s ‘Why Chinese Mothers are Superior’ seems to have just open a can of worms! It’s since sparked two follow up articles from bloggers who have never guest p > read more

iPhone – a Fate Worse than Death for the Aging Adult

Published on 2011-02-07 16:45:48

It’s another story in itself, but my father in law – a semi-retired man – was over the moon when gifted with my son’s iPhone beginning of December. I don’t own an iPhone, so while they look to me to provide tech support, > read more

Tiger Mummies by @maidinaustralia

Published on 2011-02-06 16:45:45

Bronnie @maidinaustralia is a former journalist and a twitter friend of mine who says on her blog that she loves animals, hates housework, and makes a mean lasagne. I’m honoured to receive Bronnie’s first ever guest post anywhere, and mor > read more

Be Safe in the Water Colouring Contest

Published on 2011-02-05 16:45:38

My online pal Rebecca Robinson (see Where is Your Joy?) is keeping me on the path – even when I’m slipping up! Please help support her wonderful campaign to keep kids out of danger whilst they’re in the pool. The following guest pos > read more

Work and Family, and Raising Children Network

Published on 2011-02-02 16:45:18

It’s my privilege to welcome the Raising Children Network to SuperParents. The Raising Children Network is an Australian parenting website supported by the Australian government. The content on the Raising Children Network is developed by profe > read more

Why Chinese Mothers Have to Feel Superior

Published on 2011-02-02 03:19:01

A Rebuttal to ‘Why Chinese Mothers are Superior‘ by Amy Chua There’s been a firestorm created by Yale Law School professor Amy Chua’s book Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother and the WSJ’s online article ‘Why Chinese > read more

Safer Internet Day – Cyber Safety for Kids and Parents

Published on 2011-01-31 19:50:42

This guest post by Zac Grace (www.comparebroadband.com.au) is part of a series of online safety articles on SuperParents. To find out more, and become involved, see Online Safety for Children. The internet can be a downright dangerous place when it c > read more

@speekee

Published on 2011-01-29 17:00:59

Jim Porter, whom I’ve been communicating with since end of last year is the Founder of a children’s Spanish Language Learning series. His tool is created by parents with a homely yet professional feel, and is called ‘Speekee.’ > read more

@motivatingmum

Published on 2011-01-28 17:00:20

Alli Price, mum to 4yo and 9mo children, is the driving force behind Motivating Mum, a business dedicated to helping mumpreneurs achieve their business dreams in the UK and Australia. Earlier this month, Alli sent me a release about a charity mentori > read more

Don’t Create a Scared Little Girl

Published on 2011-01-21 21:17:20

Compare. Compare. Compare. Compare. I know a mum who is setting her children for failure. She compares at every turn. Here is a physical defect. This is where she doesn’t do well. This is where all girls do good. This is where all boys do badly > read more

100+ Sex Positions

Published on 2011-01-18 01:30:24

I found an App ’100+ Sex Positions’ on My 9yo’s iTunes Account! Yes, that’s what I saw when I looked through my son’s iTunes Purchase History. I was pushed to look into his iTunes account after our credit card got charge > read more

Music Training for Children

Published on 2011-01-17 03:21:20

From my understanding of Suzuki violin training – for children to play fast, they’ve got to practise fast. What that means is that Suzuki teachers encourage a range of bowing speeds so children can keep up with faster pieces where their t > read more

LotteryWest Skyworks

Published on 2011-01-16 09:14:01

Perth’s LotteryWest Skyworks is a show that is held over a section of the Swan River in Perth, Western Australia every Australia Day. The LotteryWest Skyworks show usually runs for half an hour, involving spectacular fireworks launched from bui > read more

Where is Your Joy?

Published on 2011-01-12 16:30:52

Forget about fancy ad slogans, when I see a handle like RebeccaSaveKids, you can be sure I’m going to check it out. Turns out this particular blog written by Rebecca Wear Robinson is dedicated to saving kids from drowning. Fantastic! I like tha > read more

A SAHD Story

Published on 2011-01-10 16:30:34

This SAHD approached parenthood confident and composed. I found out we were expecting just around the time I was made redundant, and spent the last few remaining months enjoying two newfound hobbies – cooking and fishing. Objectively, I didn > read more

5 Ways to Scare Kids

Published on 2011-01-09 20:34:06

5 Ways to Scare Kids is a list of what n0t-to-do. This list is not an example of nurturing parenting. If you don’t figure it out, this is inspired strongly by personal experience. Always good for a laugh. Jaws is good for at least 6 months wort > read more

Divorce is the New Four Letter Word

Published on 2011-01-06 16:30:48

There are other emotionally wrenching issues that move me tonight, but my night started off with word that a good friend of mine is at the threshold of divorce. How would I feel if my children were taken away from me? My wife? My family? Put on a pa > read more

The Montessori Work Cycle

Published on 2011-01-04 16:30:19

The Montessori Parent Struggles to Not Praise Children was met with surprise as some people hadn’t realised I was a Montessori parent, nor did they know I had spent quite a few years managing a parent run Montessori playgroup. Here I attach p > read more

The Montessori Parent Struggles to Not Praise Children

Published on 2011-01-02 16:15:31

I’m trying to be keep this blog running during the school holidays, and thought to look through my old folders from my days as Coordinator for Perth Montessori Playgroup La Casa Dei Bambini. The following article I wrote sometime 2006 talks abo > read more

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