Besides reducing the risk of SIDS, there are many reasons to share a bedroom with your newborn baby – read why.

If you are planning a much needed spa break, here are some very important tips for you to maximise your experience.

My 2-cents worth about the recent decision of the courts not to allow corporal punishment of children in their own homes: Corporal...

Amy-Leigh is a little 6-year old girl that was abducted by four men in front of her school, right next to her mother, in front of her...

Most parents get chills when they hear the news that a child had been kidnapped. It is any parent’s worst nightmare.

Have you ever had an interaction with someone and afterwards you feel extremely frustrated but you're not sure why?

He is in a foreign country. With a few good friends. A small room where he lives and studies. He eats simple meals with few treats. He...

After a divorce, most people assume that children reside primarily with mothers. However, there are many non-custodial mothers out there.

I am a Perinatal Bereavement Doula. Yes, unfortunately working with dead babies is part of my job. I dry broken parents’ tears. I take...

The loneliest club in the world… The Baby Loss Club is not for the fainthearted. It is a club with non-negotiable terms and lifelong...

Your little feet will never be adored and kissed and lovingly stared at by your doting parents...

Saying ‘Bon Voyage’ to my parents at OR Tambo today We took my parents to the airport this afternoon – they are flying out to the States...

The Graduate My Facebook feed is full of beautiful young people getting their degrees this year and proud parents (mostly mothers!)...

m Dear Teacher at The Posh Private School: Firstly I want to say: THANK YOU for the incredible work you do! When you read this, please...

The first few weeks of January, I was greeted with many smiling faces and ‘first day of school’ photos. Whether it’s pre-primary,...

My boykie I wrote this piece for Kevin just before he left for university in 2016. Little did I know that he would be leaving for New...

When my firstborn started his job last year, I wrote this for him. I think you can’t go wrong to apply these ‘rules’ in any working...

I have never really been a girly girl where bedrooms were concerned and always had a functional room, nothing else. It was a place where...

Choking is the coughing spasm and sputtering that happen when liquids or solids get into the windpipe. 

I have accepted my role as the non-drinker at any given social event. But apparently my non-drinker status is a source of huge concern to...