Family

As life expectancy increases it is not uncommon to find baby boomers coping with the pressures of full time work and the care of elderly parents.

Father’s Day is just around the corner - why not gather your whānau together, and make this Father’s Day an intergenerational celebration not to be forgotten!

Timely reminders and cunning new ploys to keep you warm, active, and up and at’em until the warmer weather arrives

The big things in life are hard – so why not make the little things easier where you can! We’ve got the easy peasie life hacks to help you do just that!

Distance families are families separated by geography. Is your family one of them?

There is no question that for the majority of parents today, parental stress is much higher than it was 30 years ago.

Who doesn’t enjoy a break, and this June (the 24th to be exact), we’ll be celebrating a new one! It’s Matariki, a lively public holiday which centres on the rising of the Matariki star cluster in the night sky.

Secondary attachment is when when a baby or toddler has a sense of strong connectedness to a grown-up who is not a biological parent. This can include grandparents, nannies or early childhood educators.

In recent years there has been an upsurge of the circumstances where more than one generation of a family has a financial stake in the same property.

One set of grandparents I asked made it their mission to instil a love of reading with their grandson. Every time they went around to his house, they made sure they read his books.