Events in recent years have probably increased the stresses on your family. The good news is that taking the time to learn and then put into practice some of Noël’s key parenting strategies can make family life significantly less stressful. And a ‘calmer, easier, happier’ home life will help you to be more resilient when it comes to dealing with any new challenges.

Discover the strategies that Noël recommends for busting through your parenting stresses...

Why siblings squabble, compete with each other, annoy each other on purpose - and often make you want to leave them at the zoo!

This is the first of two articles about sibling rivalry. In these articles Noël explains about sibling rivalry, and what you can do to significantly improve how your children interact with one another.

Noël’s approach will help you to guide your children to become more tolerant of each other, more patient with each other, and more friendly - most of the time! You’ll soon feel less stressed.

In Part One you’ll learn how to put into practice one of Noël’s highly effective strategies that will help you to radically reduce your children’s sibling squabbles.

How to guide siblings to like each other more and squabble less so that everyone in the family feels calmer, easier and happier.

Following on from Part 1 (about the evolutionary causes of sibling rivalry), in this article (Part 2) Noël explains the environmental causes of sibling rivalry.

She gives clear insights into what you can and cannot achieve, and she explains another strategy that you can put into practice right away.

It’s easy for parents to drift into the habit of almost all conversations and activities revolving around the children’s needs or wants. It’s important to cultivate our adult relationships and our own interests. In this article Noël shows busy parents how this can be achieved.

Just about every parenting book and every parenting article makes the point that we need to take care of our own emotional needs in order to be the parents we want to be. You may have heard this advice so many times already that it just feels like ‘Blah, blah, blah’, and your response may be a bored or disbelieving ‘Yeah, yeah…’

In this article, Noël explains how even very busy parents can focus on self-care.

Reading to our children is the most effective, as well as the easiest, quickest, and most enjoyable, way to improve reading comprehension. In this article, Noël offers some important guidelines.

Parents often ask me what they can do to help their children to enjoy school more and to get the most out of school. Here are ten top tips that many ‘Calmer, Easier, Happier’ parents have found useful. You can start putting these strategies into practice at any point during the school year, and they will make a significant difference.

In the following article, Noël explains the vital role that fathers play in bringing out the best in their sons, and how mothers can support fathers to step more fully into this important position in the family. She also addresses how fathers and mothers need to come together to function as a team, which can minimise tensions and enhance everyone’s enjoyment of family life.

In the following article, Noël explains the vital role that fathers play in bringing out the best in their sons, and how mothers can support fathers to step more fully into this important position in the family. She also addresses how fathers and mothers need to come together to function as a team, which can minimise tensions and enhance everyone’s enjoyment of family life.

The ability to deal successfully with everyday situations, whether these situations are familiar or new, is one of the main building blocks of a child’s confidence and self-esteem. Confidence is all about knowing you can handle challenges. It is the attitude of, “I can do it!” or “I’ve never done this before, but I’ll give it a try!”…

Twenty tips, tools and techniques excerpted from the book ‘Calmer, Easier, Happier Screen Time’ by Noel Janis-Norton. Each of these suggestions is explained in more detail in this book.

Are you worried that your children or teens are spending too much time in front of screens? You may have tried unsuccessfully in the past to curb screen time. Don’t give up. You don’t have to accept that this is just the way life is nowadays. Getting back in charge of the screens in your home may feel impossible or not worth the hassle…

You may have heard the saying, ‘Children spell love T-I-M-E’.

Giving our children the gift of our focused, unhurried time provides them, and ourselves, with profound benefits. The benefits increase when we give the gift of our undivided attention to each of our children individually, with no other siblings in sight. 

Read on to discover how this radically transformative strategy can help you to enjoy your children more; help your children to like each other more; create lasting positive memories; increase your children’s confidence, skills, and self-reliance - and much more besides….

Help your children achieve their academic potential

Make a short list of the basic academic skills that you have noticed your children need to improve.

To help children learn to tackle schoolwork and homework independently, start by training them to play independently.

Limit screen time to one hour a day (a half-hour a day if under aged eight) to give children the opportunity to develop other, more intellectually challenging pastimes.....

There are many times every day when our children are not doing anything wrong, but we have one eye on the clock so we want them to move on from what they are doing in order to start doing the next thing on our agenda.

We would like our children to respond as soon as we give an instruction, but often they’re so absorbed in what they’re doing that they barely seem to hear us. And even when they do hear, they don’t want to stop playing....

The school holidays can seem to last an awfully long time when you’ve got restless or squabbling children at home. Here are our top tips for keeping your children and teens happily occupied over the summer break…

We’ve all been there: You remind and remind and remind your children and teens about something they need to do. They look as if they’re listening. But the reality is that they probably haven’t listened to much of what you said. And when that happens you’re likely to be left feeling frustrated, exasperated, or even furious.

Instead, learn about how to put into practice think-throughs.

Think-throughs are a unique and radical strategy that you can use to teach and train your children and even your teens the habit of cooperating the first time they’re told.

No matter what your family’s cultural or religious traditions, I always recommend parents start thinking about and planning for the school Christmas holidays at least a month in advance

By starting early, and by using some of my top tips, you can make the school holiday this festive season a calmer, easier, and happier experience for your whole family.

Family life can be very stressful if you and your partner aren’t a United Front. Perhaps you’re:

-feeling frustrated that your partner seems to have a different set of rules and standards about how to bring up the children

-disheartened about resolving your parenting problems

-worried that your partner may believe you caused the problems in the first place

-blaming yourself

Learn how you and your partner can become united in your approach to parenting...