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Minutes Matter

In the heart of a child, one moment can last forever. Julie Weslake challenges us to embrace that moment.

6 Time-Saving Strategies for Healthy Family Meals

Karen Fischer offers busy mums some tips on meal preparation that will give them more time with their families.

Fancy a Fruit Juice?

Is fruit juice a health food or a glamorised, sugary drink?

Eat With Your Kids

According to Gary Hopkins, having a meal together is as essential to the lives of your children as it is for their physical well-being.

Banish Fussy Eating

Does your child reject food, especially vegetables? Is he or she easily distracted or refuses to sit at the table while eating? Don’t be worried—get motivated!

Our Children and Video Games

Debbie Cosier looks at the harmful effects video games may have on our children.

Smart Breakfast Ideas for Kids

Breakfast is brain food for kids. While skipping breakfast is a bad idea for anyone, kids will feel the impact more. They have a higher ratio of brain weight to liver weight, which means that their brain's overnight demand for glucose more quickly outstri

Internet Safety

Kristin Thiele looks at ways to create and maintain healthy boundaries in the age of social networking.

Violence in Schools

Debbie Cosier argues that society itself is to blame for the increasing occurrence of violent acts by children.

Fight Obesity in Kids

Obesity in childhood strongly predisposes to obesity in adulthood. Yet many parents are oblivious to the fact that their child is carrying around more than just puppy fat, and they assume their child will simply grow out of it.

Help your Special-needs Child

Judith Nembhard looks at ways that the parents of children with disabilities can help them better deal with life.

Mum's the Word!

Nothing quite prepares you for life as a first-time mother. I received a lot of good advice from family and friends, but as a computer-age 20-something, I found the internet useful in ways they couldn

How to Keep Your Home Happy

Life's "busyness" can make home miserable instead of happy. Elizabeth Kapao offers some suggestions for ensuring that doesn't happen in your home.

Kids in the Kitchen

Looking for ways to get your kids eating healthier while offering more choice and responsibility? Get them into your kitchen.

Finding Support as a Woman

Making a full-time profession of being a mother can be severely taxing. Julene Kapao tells how she deals with the stress.

ICC Saving Children

Every October, the world thinks about poverty. Brad Watson tells of one group who is helping.

How to get Kids to Eat Vegetables

Many parents complain that they can't get their children to eat vegetables, often giving up after the first few tries. But teaching your kids to develop a love for vegetables is one of the best gifts you can give, as it will be with them for a lifetime.

What I Learn From My Students

School is for learning-for teachers as well as students. Highschool teacher Julene Deurksen-Kapao explains.

Just Let Them Play: ways for parents to be good sports

We all want our children to succeed. Victor Parachin explains how to help them through our example.

Tackling Childhood Obesity

Obesity is an epidemic, with many children also overweight or obese. Health and fitness expert Andrew Cate shows what can be done.

Steve Biddulph Shares his Parenting Secrets

Good parentingis a learnedskill. Nathan Brown talks toparenting expertSteve Biddulphabout successfulparenting.

A Mother's Love

A more worthy woman would be hard to find. Christine Miles talks to New Zealand's recently crowned "Mother of the Year" Leanne Rouse.

Mirages in the Mirror

When we go shopping she does not want to use the public toilets because she hates seeing herself in those mirrors.

Of Parents and Children

Our relationship with our parents is the foundation for all our other relationships. Loron Wade considers what it means to "honour your father and your mother."

Belonging to a Family

Nihilism is the ultimate in despair, in which there is no hope, no future, no meaning, no values, no purpose, no God.

Raising Boys: Teaching them to become men

While boys will be boys, they do mature into men-eventually. Rochelle Woods explains how parents can help boys become men of integrity.

Growing Great Children

Christine Miles explores the joy and skill of raising great kids with New Zealand's parenting experts Ian and Mary Grant.

Single mum with four girls

My biggest concern is that my girls do not want to go to church with me anymore. They have thrown away the values I taught them.

Circle of Courage: learning from the past

Sioux Indian Luke Yellowrobe has a passion for young people and through the "Circle of courage" model of youth development, he's making a difference. Nathan Brown speaks with this passionate leader.

How Kids Manipulate Us

We've all seen them in the shopping centre- kids who control their parents. But what do we do when we get home and discover they are our kids? Susan Davis makes some helpful suggestions.

Family Smarts

How do they do it? Helen Racanelli checks out 10 secrets of highenergy parents.

How to Get Kids to Listen

Look at me when I'm talking to you! Don't make me repeat myself! Pay attention when I'm speaking to you! Do you hear me? Victor Parachin presents the parenting dilemma.

Weet-Bix Billy Cart Grand Prix

The billycart is as Australian as Weet-Bix itself, but combine the two and you have an event that promotes healthy living and is fun for the whole family, as David Edgren discovered.

Get Closer to Your Kids

Good families don't happen by accident. Victor Parachin checks out ways to keep your children close.

Healthy School Lunch Boxes

With the rates of obesity, type-2 diabetes, high-blood pressure and high cholesterol rising rapidly in children, packing a healthy lunch box has never been more important.

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ABCs of Stress-free Parenting

Victor Parachin shows how to reduce your parenting difficulties by remembering your alphabet.

God Carried my Baby

A serious heart condition threatened Karen Elengikal and her unborn child. Then God stepped in.

Blending In

I've married a man previously married. He smokes and drinks, and even though he knows it's bad for him, he can't quit

Like Mother, Like Daughter

Daughters, our mothers influence us in a variety of ways. But have you ever considered it in respect to diet? Three mums and their daughters* shared their feelings about diet, food and body image with health and nutrition writer Kelly James-Enger.

A Mothers Faith

When her son David contracted meningitis, Annette Barlow knew God would take care of him, as she told Christine Miles.

No Need to Get Mad!

Kids can be frustrating, as all parents well know. But as Sheila O'Connor points out, you can and need to stay in control of them-and yourself.

Time to Tackle Obesity

Health and fitness expert Andrew Cate looks at the current and growing problem of obesity, as not so different to the smoking debate of three decades ago.

Healthy, Not Hyper, Kids!

Is the epidemic of hyperactive and ADD kids, at least in part, the result of what we're feeding them? Quite possibly, if the experts are to be believed.

No Time to be Moving On

She's our only child, and we're deeply hurt by her attitude, which borders on abusive.

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