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Top Five Essential Resources For Parents

May 13, 2024 by theLight Albury-Wodonga

By: Focus on the Family

There’s no doubt about it – parenting is a difficult and often thankless task that we seem to work tirelessly for.

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Categories Parenting Tags articles, family life, focus on the family, parenting children

Chores Lead to Success, Later in Life (even if teens don’t love them!)

February 3, 2021 by theLight Albury-Wodonga

By: Collett Smart

a comic strip of a mother and daughter at a sink. The mum asks her daughter, why didnt you wash this pan? The daughter responds, that pan wasn't part of the official dinner dishes! Mum says, listen, when i ask you to do the dishes after dinner, that means every dish in the sink, not just the ones for dinner AND it also means cleaning the counter and making the kitchen look tidy! The daughter groans.

Has the artist of Hedger Humour been peeping in my windows? We often wonder about the benefits of chores, and whether the sighing, dodging and procrastination are worth the effort (and that’s just the parents I am talking about! 😉)

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Categories Parenting Tags articles, family life, raising teenagers

Family Traditions Help Kids Make Sense of Life

July 15, 2020 by theLight Albury-Wodonga

By: Dr Justin Coulson

“Family traditions counter alienation and confusion. They help us define who we are; they provide something steady, reliable and safe in a confusing world.” – Susan Lieberman

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Categories Parenting Tags articles, family life, happy families, justin coulson

Home Will Be the Hero: Creating a Safe Place for Our Tweens and Teens

May 12, 2020 by theLight Albury-Wodonga

By: Michelle Mitchell

The feeling of packing your bags up and heading home is always bittersweet, especially if it wasn’t in the original plan.

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Categories Celebration and Events Tags articles, family life, gratitude, national day of thanks, teens

Helping Your Blended Family Thrive, Not Just Survive

April 30, 2020 by theLight Albury-Wodonga

By: Dr Justin Coulson

One in five Australians are part of a blended family. Statistically, 30% of the kids in your child’s school class will be part of a blended family. In fact, blended families are one of Australia’s fastest growing family types.

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Categories Relationships Tags articles, divorce, family life, happy families, justin coulson

A Roadmap for Co-Parents During COVID-19

April 28, 2020 by theLight Albury-Wodonga

By: Dr Justin Coulson

Parenting is an exercise in organisation, communication, and flexibility at the best of times. Co-parenting, particularly in blended families, is even more complicated. And in the midst of a pandemic, it’s exponentially harder.

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Categories Parenting Tags articles, divorce, family life, happy families, justin coulson

Heading Home- A Poem

January 24, 2020 by theLight Albury-Wodonga

By: Yvette Cherry

The wind was a howlin’,
blowing a gale.
Our Coral Bay holiday
was beginning to fail.

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Categories Lifestyle Tags articles, camping, family life, Yevette Cherry

Stop Stuffing Stuff In: Why Relationships Don’t Work on Efficiency

January 23, 2018 by theLight Albury-Wodonga

By: Dr Justin Coulson | Happy Families

My wife and I are parents to six daughters.

Yes… six. Yes, we intentionally conceived them. No we weren’t trying for a boy. Yes, we do own a television (which we clearly do not have time to watch.)

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Categories Relationships Tags articles, family life, happy families, justin coulson, parenting tips

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