Surviving the Christmas Holidays: Five Parenting Tools That Actually Make December Easier: Here are the five tools I come back to every single year — the ones that reliably make our holidays calmer, kinder, and more connected.

Tantrums. Those sudden emotional storms that can sweep through your day and leave both parent and child feeling spent. But here’s the good news: tantrums follow a predictable pattern. And once you understand that pattern, it becomes easier to stay calm, respond effectively, and even strengthen your connection with your child in the process. One of my favourite tools for understanding this process is Katie Malinski’s Arc of the Tantrum  — a really clear visual that shows the stages of a...

What if, every year, you faced a complete workplace overhaul – new office, new colleagues, a new job description, and a new boss with an entirely different way of working? Some of us would welcome the adventure – fresh challenges, constant learning, never a dull moment. Others might enjoy parts of it – perhaps the new boss but not the office move, or the chance to work with different colleagues but not the change in expectations. And some would find the whole thing unsettling, exhausting,...