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Art of Balance
Search for: Art of Balance career / home / Relationship / Self-care Art you in? I’ve been invited many times to speak on the concept of balance. I think when people look from outside in, they see this person who has it all figured out. As I type this,...
10 Tips For Starting Your Own Side Hustle
1. Analyse your time usage and where you can steal time or cut down activities to invest that time back into your side hustle Before deciding to start a side hustle, it is important to assess your schedule and look for moments in your day that can be...
Trust Your Gut: Gut & Liver Health
My Story I’ve always been one to listen to my body and allow it to cue me towards good health and function. But lately, no matter how much I tried, eating healthy, fasting, drinking plenty water, moving more… you name it, my body was just not happy. I was feeling...
Fallacy or Fact: Working From Home Is Productive
This past year was atrocious to the whole world and at the moment, no one wants to revisit the memories created during the height of the COVID19 pandemic. Nevertheless, that painful period educated many of us. We learnt new words like ‘Zoom dysmorphia,’ ‘Comorbidity,’...
Feb Editor’s Note: Growing in Love Where You Are Planted
Olwethu’s February Editor’s Note.
Lunch Box Ideas To Keep Your Children Healthy & Happy!
At Art of Superwoman we believe in thinking/planning ahead, to circumvent anxiety. So this is us, preemptively having your back in the coming months when your child is over, eating the things they swore they’d love to eat for the rest of their lives just a few weeks b…
How Extramural Activities Enhance Your Child’s Development
Extramural activities provide an opportunity for your child to meet and make new friends outside of their main bubble, further developing their social skills and fostering an opportunity for them to further develop psychologically and physically – not to mention the pos…
10 Festive Covid Safe Activities to do with Your Child This Holiday Season
December school holidays begin in less than ten days! We at AoS have curated a list of ten fun, COVID-19 safe activities for you, your child, and your family to enjoy this festive season.
We hope this will help ease some of the angst that comes with parenting in limbo.
Look In The Mirror Mom, You Are The Superhero!
The lie of “white supremacy” has co-opted the superhero narrative and robbed us of our history, identity, and cultural inheritance. In honour of Chadwick Boseman Day; today’s parenting blog focuses on how Boseman’s role as King T’Challa decolonised the typical…
How Gratitude Shapes Your Child
In a world where children feel entitled to phones worth R30 000+ how does gratitude fit into the equation? Should we even bother trying to instil a sense of gratitude in a world of social media-induced abundance?
In this week’s parenting blog, we explore why cultivati…
Building A Study Sanctuary For Your Child
The end of year exam period is fast approaching and our children will be in the throes of memorisation and end of term projects. In this blog post we will talk about the importance of creating a positive study space for your child and share DIY tips on how to create it.
Boosting Your Child’s Brain and Memory During Exams
There is no denying the fact that the last two or so months of the year can be highly stressful for both parents and children.
With the end of the school year fast approaching, students are about to be elbow deep in final projects and seemingly endless study sessions. …
Developing An Autonomy-Affirming Parenting Style
Instead of creating a safe space for our children to begin developing and practicing crucial skills that are vital to them becoming well-rounded adults, we unwittingly fall into age-old patterns of over exerting our position of authority, and stunting crucial developmen…
Flipping The Parenting Script
In commemoration of Day of the Girl child, this blog looks at the different ways parents raise their girl child, and the dangers of parents not recognising other gender identities outside of the popular ‘male’ and ‘female’ genders, as well as the incognisance o…
Self-love And Personal Perception of Beauty is Key
Growing up as a girl in a township on the Cape Flats of Cape Town was incredibly difficult. I had no role models to look up to, I didn’t see myself being mirrored back to me in a positive way. Everyone I knew had unbelievably hard lives, they were given subpar...
Improving Parent-Teen Relationships
Raising teenagers can be incredibly difficult. At this stage of their lives, they are on a path to discovery, and they may ‘pull away’ in order to create their own identity. On this edition of #TheSitDownParenting, Dr Shaheda Omar, Clinical Director of The Teddy Bear...
Identity Develops in Childhood
For us to be upstanding members of our communities who play a vital role in the functioning of our society, we must have a solid identity. Our identities are shaped throughout our lives, and they inform our values, morals, and ethics. It is a priority for a parent to...
Welcome The Curious Spirit in Children
Children are inherently spiritual beings; we see this in the way they live their lives and interact with the world around them. They run freely, laugh loudly, and they enjoy their time in nature. Children don’t view the world through the jaded lens of an adult. To a...
Managing Your Parental Expectations To Align With Your Child’s Potential
From the beginning of the third term, Grade 9 learners are often inundated with the task of deciding which school subjects they would like to take leading up to Grade 12 and a lot of considerations come into play at this point of a child’s schooling career. Learners...
