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From overwhelmed to empowered – how Karen helps families turn family concerns into real-life support.

Fatherhood isn’t about having all the answers — it’s about being present. At Kidz Therapy, we see every day how powerful it is when dads show up emotionally, not just physically.

Helping Your Child Build Resilience – One Step at a Time

While improved academic achievement is often the main reason parents seek private tuition, it is just one of the many benefits that long-term tutoring can provide, including mentorship, critical thinking, a love of learning, better exam preparation and motivation to study.

Between the ages of 11 and 15, egocentrism is characterised by certain traits, primarily the presence of an "imaginary audience" in the minds of teenagers. Find out what teenage egocentrism is and how to deal with it.

With good intentions at heart, many parents fall into the trap of over-scheduling their children’s after school and weekend hours with too many activities. Everyone needs time to relax and decompress – including tamariki! Downtime gives your children time to rest and process the events of their day including learning and social interactions at school. Here are our 4 best reasons why downtime is good for your whanau.

All parents are trying their best to help their tamariki turn out to be kind and empathetic. But what do you do if you hear reports of your child being mean to others? With mean behaviour, parents need to take hold their child’s instinct to exert dominance, and turn it into more socially acceptable behaviour. Here are our top tips (for all ages) for stamping out mean behaviour

Parenting definitely keeps you on your toes. As they get older kids begin to ask questions that you don’t always have the answer to. One of the questions that is always the most dreaded is when your tamariki ask “Is Santa real? Before you dive into this potential minefield of a conversation, there are a few things you need to take into account.

After 2 years in and out of lockdown many of us have gotten used to being at home indoors. But now that the days are longer and full of more sunshine, we thought it was time to highlight the important role that spending time in nature plays in your child’s mental and physical development.