Grooming brilliance as a modern parent

It’s a lot easier to find a book telling you how you should be parenting than it is to find a cure-all method of parenting. We all know there is no ‘perfect’ parent – you do your best and hope they grow up okay.
As two childless women, we cannot provide you with a parenting guidebook you can whip out to look up the answer to every conceivable problem, but with the help of a few people who know better than we do, we can help you recognise and groom your child’s brilliance, irrespective of what their type of brilliant is.
Parenting would be so much easier if every child were the same type of brilliant, but the world would certainly be a lot less colourful. If every child was a mathematical genius, Picasso may never have painted.
With this Junior Focus edition, we aimed to recognise all types of brilliance. Little things make a big difference, so we also wanted to show you how you can make small changes in your parenting, discipline and lifestyle choices that can lay an even more solid foundation for your child’s bright future.
We hoped, from the very beginning, to offer an alternative parenting guide that would give practical and applicable advice to any parent – from those expecting their bundle of joy in the months or weeks to come, to those struggling to keep it all together when the going gets tough.
Being your child’s safe haven can be taxing, but with this edition, we hope to ease the strain so you can let go of the stress and enjoy the little moments with your little one - before those moments are just a memory.
Our goal of highlighting every type of brilliance set us on the path of eliminating factors inhibiting that brilliance. Diet, exercise, mental health and the stress of separation can have an everlasting impact on your child, especially when you don’t have thousands of dollars to spend on therapy or hours to stand in front a stove in hopes of giving your child the most scrumptious meal they have ever had.
From us to you, this is for the working parent, the real parent, the parent who gets tired, the parent who doesn’t always know which way to go. We hope you will enjoy the Junior Focus edition as much as we enjoyed creating it specifically for you.