Category: Starting a Family
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Our anarchic New Year’s resolutions
There’s nothing wrong with resolving to lose weight or to climb up the career ladder in 2015, but how about making a collective New Year’s resolution as a family, focusing on the greater good? By Sam Wilson
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Oh no, my pants are on fire again!
Should we always, honestly, tell the absolute, literal truth to our children? Sometimes, telling a little lie to a little one can be the lesser of two weevils, argues Mom in Progress Kagiso Msimango.
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The ultimate staycation survival kit
Executive dad Rudy Nadler-Nir believes staycations can be fun for the whole family – all you need is a treasure trove of games, series, books, toys . . . and a healthy dash of imagination.
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8 Ways for dads to make the most of their holidays
This festive season, dads, give your kids the greatest gift of all. Not your presents, but your presence. By Craig Wilkinson
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The road to rad dad
As a successful entrepreneur, Richard Mulholland was used to knowing all the answers and being Number One. The birth of his children turned his world upside down, but he’s managed to come out on top again. Looking back, he says, there are a lot of things he would have done differently…
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Life isn’t a ladder, it’s a jungle gym
Getting ahead in the world, for an ambitious entrepreneur, sometimes means moving sideways instead of up. Especially when your plans change in a way that makes life even more challenging…and even more rewarding. By Louise Brugman.
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And then there was Kayla
By Yolandie Horak Change Moment: Starting a family We were planning to travel. Destination: Ireland. We were already talking about it with friends, super excited about the prospects of a new country and new experiences. We’d been overseas the year before and touring London and Europe had been amazing, to say the least. We craved…
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Guardian angel
Losing a child is one of the hardest things to go through as a parent and I would not wish it on my worst enemy, but i’m jumping the gun here, let’s start at the beginning. My husband and I got married on the 10th of August 2013. It was, as you would hope, the…
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Life unexpected
We had been planning on trying for a daughter and at our 12 week scan, we found out that it was a girl. We were both over the moon
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The other side of life
What is the meaning of life? I’ve asked this question many times and I’ve realised that the meaning of life is this… It is keeping the things that create meaning in my life and removing the ones that don’t. That thing that creates meaning should allow me to be the best person I can…