“As long as we’ve got each other, we’ve got the world spinning right in our hands”, as the theme song goes for the 80’s hit sitcom, Growing Pains. A show about a Father of 3, who moved his business to his home, so that his wife could resume her career. Hence why, the setting was [...]
I felt lost, overwhelmed and exhausted. Being a first-time mum has definitely been an amazing journey, yet packed with tons of stress, fear, anxiety, sleep deprivation, frustration etc. For the very first time in my life, I no longer felt like myself or recognised who I was. I was feeling so lost, almost to the [...]
By Andy Towle Christo and Theo Menalaou, a gay couple who just had triplets in South Africa, have made medical history. Their newborns Joshua, Zoe, and Kate are the first triplets ever born with both of their fathers’ DNA. International Business Times reports: Theo and Christo Menelaou fertilised one egg each of a surrogate using their DNA. [...]
By Christina McGhee One of the most damaging aspects of divorce consistently emphasized by researchers, mental health professionals and family courts conflict between parents. When children are exposed to heated debates, badmouthing, insults and high conflict situations, they suffer tremendously. Kids literally view themselves as half mom and half dad. When they hear jabs, insults [...]
Shefali Tsabary, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist with a private practice in New York. She received her doctorate in Clinical Psychology from Columbia University, New York. She is the author of the multi-award-winning, The Conscious Parent. Heralded as a game-changer in the parenting genre, this book turns the traditional parenting paradigms on its head and [...]