Parenting Relationships | Essential Kids

Why I won't make friends with the school mums

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Why I'm being honest with my son about his dad's faults

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When we fail to consider the ethics of arguing, this makes it perilously easy to mistreat others.

Actually, it’s OK to disagree. Here are 5 ways we can argue better

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Friendships and social skills

Making friends can be harder for some kids than others but there are ways you can help develop your child's social skills to ensure they can build healthy friendships now and in the future.

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QUIRKY KID

How to talk to children about grandparents with dementia

Helping children understand why their grandparent can no longer remember their name is a hard conversation to have, but here are ten practical tips to help guide you.

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Alison Bradshaw

Julia Roberts in the 1998 film, <i>Stepmum</i>.

Solving the struggles of step parenting

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Jo Hartley

Finding time to nurture your marriage after kids.

How to reignite love, sex and passion in your marriage after kids

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Patricia Tan

7 ways my relationship improved after having children

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Thuy Yau

Kimberley O'Brien

How to tell the kids you're separating

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Kimberley O'Brien

'There was something within Joe beyond understanding that neither of
us saw until much later.'

The night I met the 'other woman'

Discovering her boyfriend was a compulsive liar and a con man was bad enough for Stephanie Wood. Then things got worse.

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Stephanie Wood

Why I'm allowing my child to give up time with his dad to live with me full-time

I make this choice with a heavy heart.

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Anonymous

Ivan Telbezekov, 28, with his half-sister Anastasiya Lubichenko, 31, and his half-brother Uriy Lubichenko, 30, today. ...

Russian siblings find their younger brother in Auckland after 18 years

Four Russian-born siblings separated after they lost their mother to illness have been reunited, thanks to a New Zealand man.

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Kendall Hutt

Enough with the 'dad jokes', mums can love a lame punchline too

I am not funny, but I like to think I'm funny – and I tell a lot of cheesy jokes.

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Carolyn Tate

Fear not, parents: your middle child is going to be just fine

Amid the morning chaos of our house one day recently, I stood near the stove, keeping an eye on a row of pancakes. Our 13-month-old rested against my opposite hip, away from the heat of the griddle. Next to me, our seven-year-old narrated a long story about camp. The baby tried repeatedly to swipe my glasses off my face, and I made sounds to confirm I was listening to the camp story while ferrying dirty utensils to the sink.