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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.
Parenting Queer Children Series: Learning Is A Two-way Street
Parents of queer children often say that they don’t understand their children, based on their behaviour and preferences which don’t seem to match the gender they were assigned. I started this series by exploring the inclination of parents to punish their children for...
Parent’s Guide to Gaming Series: The Healthy Way To Game (Pt 4)
With school closures, children attending school twice or three times a week, and alternative teaching measures - most parents can agree that the lockdown has had them spending even more time with their children at home and what this means that for most households,...
Parenting Queer Children Series: What Will People Say? (Pt 1)
When I came out as gay to my parents at 21 years old, one of the concerns my parents had was the opinions of other people. I’ve always said, my mother responded in the way that is expected of people with queer children when they confirm their queerness. It is not...
Disney: My Magic Is Me
I can never get over the excitement and elation of my children in seeing themselves mirrored in TV or digital content. Just recently, I overheard a conversation the two older brothers were and in describing a particular TV character, the explanation included “The one...
Parent’s Guide to Gaming Series: The Downside (Pt 3)
The 21st century has birthed children that are more technologically advanced and can easily adapt to the fast-paced developments that are constantly introduced by the world of tech. Hand over your gadget to your child and you'll notice how quickly they are able to...
Nurturing A Spirit Of Generosity In Our Children
We are living in an era where everyone needs all the assistance they can possibly get. Some people need financial help, emotional support, psychological help, and some just need your generosity. Generosity Research (a platform that conducts studies about generosity),...
Parent’s Guide to Gaming Series: Is There an Upside To This? (Pt 2)
The world of video gaming has found its way to a lot of parents’ bad books. From getting the blame for addiction, laziness, imitating violent behaviour, among other negative effects, we can all agree that these concerns are quite valid, however, there are two sides to...
Here Is Why Your Child Should Start Practicing Yoga
On this day, we celebrate the physical and mental well-being that yoga brings into our lives. Yoga benefits stretch further than just physical exercise (pun intended). The Yoga philosophy teaches us that we are part and parcel of everything. On this...
Parent’s Guide to Gaming Series: Let’s Start With The Basics (Pt 1)
There's just so much that parents can boast about when it comes to having the upper hand where their children are concerned, except for one thing… that weird and wonderful foreign world of gaming. How many times have you scolded your kid over their 'obsession'...
Is Your Parenting Style Counter-Productive To Your Child’s Development?
Navigating parenting can be a wild sport. As the world evolves, it's imperative that we as parents keep abreast of the factors that influence our children's lives and in so doing, it can be quite easy to gravitate more towards parenting styles that may stifle our...
What Do Parents Need To Know About Micronutrients?
One of my biggest concerns during the 2020 lockdown and findings of the COVID19 pandemic on our South African shores had to be the children that would further be thrown down the rabbit hole of malnutrition. So, when Nestle Nido 3+ asked to partner and not only...
We Said Yes! To ‘Yes Day.’
It has been over a month since we had our first “Yes Day” as a family. I don’t know how to articulate the childish fun I had, and equally express how exhausted I was… but oh my word what a day! There were also a lot of lessons learnt from Yes Day, which we still apply...
Dear Parent! Your Child is Misbehaving at School!
If there was ever a ‘switch off’ button within your reach as a parent, I’m certain you would opt for it in a scenario where you receive that much dreaded phone call or email from your child’s school, reporting undesirable behaviour displayed by your child in the...
Ain’t No Distance Long Enough For Parenting!
‘’Never feel bad about having to go out to work, and do what you have to do, because you’re teaching your children work ethic,’’ Masechaba Khumalo, Media Personality and Spokesperson to the Minister of Sports, Arts and Culture, recapitulated the words of the late...
