My column recently published in The Catholic Weekly. “Do you want to meet up for coffee?” I texted my friend the other day. “I feel like a hermit.” For a week or two which included a couple of small work commitments and two of the kids getting sick, on top of my usual running…
Tag: parenting
For peaceful parenting, build your parent-support
This is a transcript of a podcast I recently recorded for the radio show, The Journey. It’s part of a series I do and it’s kind of a two-minute pep talk for frazzled parents. Do you have a team behind you? I’m not talking about a sports team or a work team, but your parent-support team. Parenting is…
Want to draw some peace into your parenting? You could start with Sundays.
How was last Sunday? Do Sundays stand out in your family, or do entire weekends just pass by in a blur of shopping, chores, socialising, sports, maybe church, ending in a frantic rush to get things ready for Monday morning? As Christians we know that Sunday is supposed to be day of rest, but have…
Surviving taking young children to Mass
My column published in last week’s Catholic Weekly. Everyone loves the idea of parents coming to Mass with their young children, but not everyone always enjoys having young children there, including the parents themselves. I’ve been to Masses where I’ve broken out in a sweat from trying to keep the children relatively still and…
Marilyn Rodrigues 