All posts by: KidsLink

  1. Home
  2. movement
Filter

The Four Pillars of Parenting:

As parents, our ultimate goal is to raise happy, well-adjusted children who are prepared for life's challenges.

Read More

A Stress-Free Summer

Here are six tips to help you enjoy the summer holidays with your kids while maintaining a stress-free atmosphere.

Read More

Preparing Your Child for School: A Smooth and Enjoyable Journey

Here are some tips and strategies to help ensure your child is ready for school and that the experience is a positive one for both of you.

Read More

Navigating the School Lunch Box

Time Out has fallen out of favour, in recent times as some parents feel this is too punitive. CBS uses the word Calm Space instead of ‘Time Out” to communicate that it is not used to be punitive but rather as a way to extinguish challenging behaviours.

Read More

Time Out or Calm Space

Time Out has fallen out of favour, in recent times as some parents feel this is too punitive. CBS uses the word Calm Space instead of ‘Time Out” to communicate that it is not used to be punitive but rather as a way to extinguish challenging behaviours.

Read More

Paediatric Feeding Disorders: Do Acupuncturists have a role?

What is Paediatric feeding disorder (PFD)? Paediatric feeding disorder (PFD) is impaired oral intake that is not age-appropriate and is associated with medical, nutritional,

Read More

The Unique Wiring of the Gifted Brain

How many times, as the parent or educator of a gifted child have you heard the old gem “All children are gifted”? It’s something parents and educators of gifted children hear too often. But what if I told you that gifted children are actually neurologically different?

Read More

Ten Top Tips for Screen Time

Increasingly kids are using screens more and more in their daily lives. As a parent it can be really tricky to know how much is too much and how to keep kids safe on the internet

Read More

What can be done at home for dyslexia?

Helping your child with dyslexia can be a challenge, particularly if you’re never been confident in your own reading and writing skills. But you don’t have to be an expert to help

Read More

Parent Wellbeing

As parents we want to believe that we are superheroes and can keep on top of everything. But we all know that is far from the truth and that there are times we need help and it’s

Read More

The Tomatis Method for Learning a New Language

Dr Alfred Tomatis was a French ear specialist who discovered the correlation between speaking and hearing. His research helps us to understand why it is so difficult to learn and

Read More

Telling the kids, you are separating

Separation to any degree is a stressful and emotive time Separation is not just a life-changing event for you and your partner but it is also one for your children.  This is no

Read More

Creating a Visually Friendly Classroom

For students with visual problems the classroom can often be full of distractions, from the glare of the lights to the oversaturation of information on the walls. The following

Read More

Parents play an important role in helping their children learn how to have healthy sexual relationships.

Parents of LGBTQ children often feel especially uncomfortable and unequipped when they try to educate them about sex and dating. Here are the top 3 reasons why parents won’t talk

Read More

Helping Kids with Anxiety: Strategies to Help Anxious Children

Childhood anxiety can worsen as children grow. How can you help your child manage anxiety on their own? When childhood anxiety is heightened, it’s natural for parents to go into

Read More

BE MORE THAN JUST AN EFFECTIVE LEADER, BUILD YOUR LEADERSHIP SKILLS TO BE A GREAT ONE

Consider the last time you heard a truly inspiring speech. Some of you may be old enough to recall JFK’s moon speech and his motivational words that we do things “not because

Read More

Special Needs Teens Rise to Challenges

Adolescence is a time of physical and emotional growth, developing independence, and developing an identity, whether your child has special needs or not. The timing may be

Read More

How to Get Your Child to Sleep

Everyone needs healthy sleep, and for children, it's especially important. Children rely on good sleep to learn, develop, and grow. But healthy sleep is often easier said than

Read More

‘Gut feel’ is a thing

Have you ever noticed that feeling of nausea in your stomach when someone asks you to do something that is outside your comfort zone? Maybe you get those butterflies in your tummy

Read More

What Is Social Anxiety?

When fear of how you appear gets in the way of functioning When you’re a teen you start being more aware of what other people think. There seems to be a “right” thing to wear or

Read More

What to Do (and Not Do) When Children Are Anxious

How to respect feelings without empowering fears When children are chronically anxious, even the most well-meaning parents can fall into a negative cycle and, not wanting a child

Read More

Sensory Processing FAQs

What are sensory processing issues? Some kids seem to have trouble handling the information their senses take in—things like sound, touch, taste, sight, and smell. Besides these

Read More

The Absentee Parent

Um… Are your parents home? Have you noticed there aren’t many parents around on TV these days? Sure, every now and then you get the odd older sibling. Or if parents do exist

Read More

Shaken To My Core

I was raised in Texas so very few things shock me. However, I read a statistic the other day that literally left me gobsmacked. 42% of girls between the ages of 6 years and 9

Read More

Planning for Mistakes

Raising a human being is tricky business. Maybe you find it as easy as spreading melted butter on hot bread. For me, there have been those moments, but there have been moments when

Read More

It Ain’t That Bad

If you are like most parents, the first few days of the school holidays are great. Time off with the whole family brings much needed bonding and grounding. Then…without

Read More

Book’em Dano…

I love books. Walking into the Auckland Public Library downtown is like a trip to Disney Land! You see, we are built for stories. It’s why we like TV, Movies and even

Read More

Becoming Mum

The day I found out I was pregnant filled me with equal parts of joy and fear. I was living 15,000kms away from my momma and even though I had the best mother-in-law in the world,

Read More

All Grown Up

My son turned 18. Apparently, he is now a man. He voted in our last election and in some countries around the world, he could be drafted into mandatory military service. Of

Read More

Lost Your Teenager or Young Adult to Gaming?

Are you tired of feeling confused about their addiction? Are you frustrated that what you’ve tried before hasn’t worked? Do you feel hopeless? Or shame that you’re a “bad

Read More