Family Times’ feature articles cover a variety of hot topics related to family living and parenting. From health and education to parenting tips and tough-to-tackle subjects, we aim to bring you up-to-date, relevant, informative and interesting articles.
Most parents don’t want to wrap their child in cotton wool, yet keeping them out of harm’s way is a number one priority. Whether it’s water safety, fire safety, stranger danger of common household accidents, we’ve got tips and advice to help keep your kids safe.
In these days of rushing around from school to work, after school activities and home again, many of us don’t notice when our neighbours are under stress and need some help. We all like to keep to ourselves and value our privacy. Yet, when we hear in the news of another tragic case of a [...]
Empowering your child to take care of him or herself is one of the most powerful safety secrets we can offer. Empowerment means you teach them to make choices – good choices – for themselves. When you mentor them as a parent you actually guide them into learning to make good, positive choices for themselves [...]
As a Midwife and Nurse I have seen many children admitted to Hospital from accidents that could have been prevented. Most of them happen in a second like a cup of hot coffee being knocked off a table or a baby falling from a bed. It is hard to protect our children from every potential [...]
Drowning is New Zealand’s third highest cause of accidental death. Since 1980, when records began, the drowning statistics peaked in 1985 with 214 deaths. Today the average, over the past five years (2002 – 2006) is 119 per annum, a drastic improvement but far too many are still dying needlessly. So how will you keep [...]
