By Natalee Holmes These days discipline is such a popular topic of conversation. Do you use time out? Smacking? Grounding? Punishments? Do you take away privileges, TV or computer time? What works for you? What works on your child? What is detrimental to your child? Regardless of what discipline techniques you use, what is important, [Read More...]
BY NATALEE HOLMES Daniel and I were shopping at Pick ‘n Pay today, and he was helping me choose fruit and vegies. I would grab the bag, and he would choose the fruit and see if it was a good enough piece to put in the bag. And so we went… apples… bananas… pears… nectarines [Read More...]
One thing I have realised again over the Christmas season, and amazed at whenever I go to a children’s party, is that kids have no concept of the worth of money. We teach that to them as they get older. Right now a 50c sweetie is as exciting as the R500 Duplo farm with 20 [Read More...]
BY JESS MOUNEIMNE A ruling made yesterday in a Pretoria High Court stating that it is no longer a criminal offense for children between the ages of 12 and 16 to engage in consensual sexual activities with each other has been lauded by many child protection NGO’s and has also upset a whole lot of people at the same time. Both sides of the argument make sense and I’m not really sure where the middle road lies- all I know [Read More...]
BY KATHY BRUGGEMAN While Jo’burg moms have send their little one’s back to school for the beginning of the 2013 school year, us ‘coastal moms’ still have a little way to go, with the official start of terms one being on Wednesday 16 January. When traveling in Germany for the Christmas holidays recently, I came [Read More...]
The holidays are in full swing and many moms- while over the moon to be spending some time with their kids, are stressing about how to keep them stimulated this festive season. We have compiled a list of firm favourites at the Mommy Matters head office. Our team will be attending most of these events [Read More...]
The rage I felt was instant. My daughter Emily, 7, had just bowled through the front door, full of the happy exhaustion that a little girl should have after her first grown-up sleepover (read: no sleep, tons of sugar). Dawn, her friend’s mum dropped her off and came in to see me. She was confused. [Read More...]
BY JESS MOUNEIMNE I had to have a good laugh when reading a new post written by teen Carolina Sudduth. Her post, ” 5 Weirdest Texting Habits of Adults,” didnt just ring true to the funny habits my parents have when texting, but – and I am ashamed tp say- I seem to have some [Read More...]
BY GEORGIA HAWKINS This morning at our place it was the typical early weekday routine, physically drag two petulant children from their beds, scramble to find sports uniform and soccer gear while making lunches, coaching nine year old on spelling words and coming up with a creative option for ‘news’ that the seven year old [Read More...]
By Lorraine Candy Maybe I’ll be excommunicated by all the “mother superiors” who don’t struggle to juggle for saying this, but I can’t tell you how overjoyed I was when my eldest’s school sports day was cancelled last week. It had already been rearranged once due to bad weather, and fitting it into a working [Read More...]