Love Parenting Newcastle

Love Parenting Newcastle Evidence-based Parent Coaching, tailored to your family's unique circumstances. Ready to enjoy being a parent again?

I'm here and available to support you with customised evidence-based parenting advice/support. I'll help you slow down to reflect on what you most dearly want for yourself and your family, then gear you up to put the action alongside your intention. www.loveparenting.com.au/enquire

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The time has come to gently close the doors of Love Parenting.After many years of walking alongside families as a parent...
05/08/2025

The time has come to gently close the doors of Love Parenting.

After many years of walking alongside families as a parenting coach and witnessing your growth, your fierce love, your vulnerability, and your courage .... I’m saying goodbye to this chapter with a full heart.

It’s been one of the greatest privileges of my life to support so many of you through the messy, magical, gut-wrenching, awe-inspiring work of parenting, especially the kind of parenting that says, “the cycle stops here.”

Thank you for trusting me to sit with you in the hard moments.

For showing up when it would’ve been easier to avoid.

For making brave choices in the quiet, everyday moments that no one else may have seen — but that your children will feel in their bones for years to come.

If you’ve completed a Parenting Reset and would like to book in for a final check-in session before I close, send me an email and let's set that up.

But mostly, I want to say this:

Please keep doing the things that you have come to know really help.

Please keep celebrating yourselves.

And please keep remembering that choosing to parent with insight and presence... even when it’s imperfect ...is powerful, radical, and world-changing.

Mel x

- pic by the lovely Lee Illfield Photography

Great points about not needing to be 'for everyone' from Julien Blanc
25/07/2025

Great points about not needing to be 'for everyone' from Julien Blanc

How are you going?Does this help or hinder as a prompt😱😆
25/07/2025

How are you going?

Does this help or hinder as a prompt😱😆

What a great idea! Kelsey Pomeroy - Kelsewhatelse
15/07/2025

What a great idea! Kelsey Pomeroy - Kelsewhatelse

“Sometimes, there is no right or wrong, just two people with different perspectives trying harder to be understood than ...
10/07/2025

“Sometimes, there is no right or wrong, just two people with different perspectives trying harder to be understood than to understand each other.”

This shows up all the time in parenting.

You’re seeing it one way, your child’s seeing it another—and both of you are doubling down, desperate to feel heard.

But connection doesn’t grow from proving our point.
It grows when we pause long enough to really get theirs.

Even when we hold the limit, we can still make space for their perspective.
That’s where the magic happens.

I love how big a deal Winter Solstice is down here. 💯❤️The Friends of Randalls Bay CoastCare crew invited my cold swimmi...
21/06/2025

I love how big a deal Winter Solstice is down here. 💯❤️

The Friends of Randalls Bay CoastCare crew invited my cold swimming group (the Cygnet Sea Urchins) for a morning plunge followed by firepits, mulled wine, soup and sourdough.

People brought cakes and slices and someone on guitar made it oh so atmospheric.

I was dropping a donation as I arrived and signing up to become a CoastCarer with them after having just done a bushwalk up through an area they've impressively transitioned and Bob Brown came over for a hello and welcome.

Of course my move here involves me stumbling into the regen group of my long-term fave polly😱😍😆

There's all manner of other great solstice things on tonight I was planning to go to (a lantern parade in Cygnet fundraising for su***de prevention) and my new Cygnet neighbours Kristin and Nick that I met today (and who run Milkwood Permaculture) asked me to their beach sit, but I'm big zonked after a massive week and going to reflect on the season change tucked in early.

Are you a Solstice celebrater?

STILL NEWCASTLE-FOCUSEDLove Parenting's 'Parenting Resets' and 'Parenting Check-In Sessions' having already moved to bei...
16/06/2025

STILL NEWCASTLE-FOCUSED

Love Parenting's 'Parenting Resets' and 'Parenting Check-In Sessions' having already moved to being facilitated 'remotely' has meant I can now live wherever it blows my hair back to.

Turns out that the furnished rental I moved into on Thursday night down here in Franklin, TAS 😍 has several fab work-from-home sitspots where I'll be able to perch myself for Zooming with those of you that are linking in.

Propped up at the dining table ....(pretty much straddling the heater because my firemaking skills are still pretty s**t 😆) was where I based myself for day #1 of being back in the LP saddle today.

I'm really loving being able to watch the chickens that I didn't even know would be an inclusion until I got here, and the teeny tiny birds that are all manner of social in one particular tree.

People I've met have been so excited that I've been able to bring my job with me.... because a downside of living in small pretty places is the challenge of finding fitting employment.

So thankyou... for your following me virtually to Carrington and then down here.

Right from when I started Love Parenting 8 years ago I hoped to one day be able to support families from anywhere.

And now here we are. ❤️

On a side note.... anyone stressed and wanting to be sanctuary-ed down here while you catch your breath? I can seriously see a new arm of Love Parenting involving the bringing in and nurturing of stretched mamas who are feeling depleted from treading water up there for too bloody long in the busy-busy.🪷

I know...I know...You are hoping you get made a fuss of this Sunday for Mothers Day. In the ways that resonate for you. ...
08/05/2025

I know...I know...

You are hoping you get made a fuss of this Sunday for Mothers Day.

In the ways that resonate for you.

By the people around you who may or may not have a hot track record of nailing that.

What you do on the daily as a woman in this world...at this time societally... is massive.

Every one of you.

In all your unique ways.

Sure... others recognising us feels great.

Something I'm loving hearing more and more about is the taking of time prior to Mothers Day to hold a little ceremony for oneself.

To reflect on this most recent lap around the sun being a mum.

To feel the feels that that causes to wash over us.

To see what learnings and insights come.

To celebrate the skillsets and mild super powers that saw us shine.

How does this feel to read?

Want me go organise a spontaneous meet-up on Sat to sit in community and do some of this together?

Sing out... I've definately got an hour where I'd happily plonk down at in Carrington with a many of you are interested.

Comment '12-1pm' or '1-2pm' if you'd like that timeslot...or just a ❣️ if it's not a fit for you but you want the post to go far and wide for others it could be a real win for.

Ta
for the pic.... looking forward to part 2 of our photo shoot this Sat morning ready to rejig the Love Parenting website.

What a beautiful way to gather.... a 'Tea and Be' Afternoon to mark Love Parenting stepping into its 9th year.  And the ...
27/04/2025

What a beautiful way to gather.... a 'Tea and Be' Afternoon to mark Love Parenting stepping into its 9th year.

And the rain (once we were in and cosy... for those of us still able to make it) added to the ambience so well.

Several of us lingered at the end thinking about ways we can co-create our next one of these.

Want to be given dibs on a spot at a Winter one?

Watch out in the Love Parenting newsletter for a call-out about it.

LP Tea and Be 8th Birthday Celebration😍Where we are going to be literally shutting the world out by closing the big roll...
23/04/2025

LP Tea and Be 8th Birthday Celebration😍

Where we are going to be literally shutting the world out by closing the big roller doors at Moa ans Co. here in Carrington so we can drink tea and go slowwwww colouring in, playing with clay, journaling or literally taking a lay down up in the yoga space.

Keen?

Comment 'Tea and Be' to be sent the link...or find it in my insta story today🌱🌱

8 Today!!It's Love Parenting's Business Birthday.🎉🎉Thankyou to all of you ❣️❣️
03/04/2025

8 Today!!

It's Love Parenting's Business Birthday.🎉🎉

Thankyou to all of you ❣️❣️

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