Happiness at Home: Simplify Your Life
Andrea Ramsay Speers
Here’s the article from my most recent newsletter… Most people say they want to simplify their lives because they feel like they have lost control of their time. [...]
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Weight Worries
Andrea Ramsay Speers
What do you do if you’re worried about your teen’s weight? Begin by recognizing that however unhappy you are about the weight, your teen is guaranteed to be even [...]
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Some Valuable Lessons For All Our Kids Suffering From A Sense Of Entitlement
Andrea Ramsay Speers
I just got a “chain email” sent to me, and although I usually just delete them (sorry if you’ve ever sent me one, but I just don’t have time to worry [...]
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Video Games as the New Books?
Andrea Ramsay Speers
I read an interesting article on boys and video games, discussing how literacy rates are dropping for boys, but some researchers aren’t concerned because they feel video [...]
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Hate The Sin, Not The Sinner
Andrea Ramsay Speers
As parents we are so often gobsmacked by our teen’s behaviour. We expect toddlers to write on walls and to throw their spaghetti across the kitchen, and we try our [...]
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First Dates
Andrea Ramsay Speers
I remember my first date with one of my first teenage boyfriends. I remember where we went, what movie we saw, what he wore. I also remember the names of all three of the [...]
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Sticks and Stones
Andrea Ramsay Speers
There has been a lot in the papers lately about bullying and cyber-bulling, in light of Rehteah Parsons’ death. Obviously, this is a complicated issue with no simple answers, [...]
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