The 3-Year Rule: Attachment, Childcare, and Why There Is No One Right Way to Raise a Child
When I was pregnant with my first child, someone told me — with complete conviction — that putting a child in childcare before the age of three would cause irreparable damage to their attachment. I spent the next several months carrying that statement like a stone in my chest, certain that returning to work made […]
You’re Allowed to Change: How to Share Your New Life Goals Without Losing the People You Love
Personal growth is rarely a solo journey — it almost always ripples outward into relationships. When you commit to meaningful change: a new career path, a healthier lifestyle, a different value set, a relationship with alcohol or social habits that’s shifting — the people in your life respond to those changes whether you invite them […]
6 New Year’s Eve Ideas That Will Bring a Positive Vibe (Without the Hype)
I’ve had New Year’s Eves that cost a fortune and left me feeling deflated by 12:05am, and I’ve had ones that cost almost nothing and turned into the evenings I still talk about years later. The pattern, I’ve noticed, has almost nothing to do with how elaborate the plan was and almost everything to do […]
Why Mums Are Exhausted at Christmas — and Why That’s Not Okay
Christmas is magical. It is also, for the vast majority of mothers, utterly exhausting in a way that is rarely acknowledged and almost never discussed at the dinner table surrounded by people who have just benefited from the hours of invisible work that made the meal possible. Why mums are exhausted at Christmas — and […]
Before the New Year Reset: 7 End-of-Year Reflection Questions Backed by Psychology
There’s a particular energy at the end of the year that I’ve learned to pay attention to. It’s not quite the forced optimism of New Year’s resolutions, and it’s not the post-Christmas slump either. It’s something quieter — a natural moment of pause that most of us rush straight through on our way to setting […]
According to a Child Doctor: 7 Reasons Nutrition at Night Is Essential for Children
As a parent, you’ve probably had the bedtime snack negotiation approximately ten thousand times. The child who “isn’t tired” is somehow also “starving.” The nutritious dinner consumed two hours ago has apparently evaporated. And you’re standing in the kitchen at 8:30pm wondering whether giving them a bowl of cereal is going to ruin their sleep, […]
7 Reasons Behavioral Kids Need Routine
If you’re parenting a child who finds everyday life disproportionately challenging — whose emotional regulation is unpredictable, whose responses to transition or uncertainty can be intense — you’ve probably heard “routine” mentioned more times than you can count. From teachers, from paediatricians, from every parenting article you’ve found at midnight during a particularly hard week. […]
The Stress Test: 7 Questions to Answer If You’re Stressed
Stress is one of those states that is remarkably easy to underestimate in yourself. When you are in it, it simply feels like life. The background hum of too much, not enough time, and not quite enough resource becomes so familiar that it stops registering as stress and starts registering as normal. These seven questions […]
Essential Resources for Relationship Advice
My first serious relationship taught me almost nothing useful about how relationships actually work. We were both young, both winging it, both confusing intensity for intimacy and conflict for passion. It lasted three years longer than it should have, largely because neither of us had any framework for understanding what we were doing — what […]
6 Reasons I Feel the Loneliest Now That I’m Single — According to Psychology
Breaking up doesn’t always bring freedom — sometimes it brings loneliness. Here are 6 psychology-backed reasons why being single can feel isolating, even when it was the right choice.