Helping you to understand the mental health of children
How Children and Young People Develop a Concept of Grief or Loss Infants and toddlers have little concept of death and would struggle to relate it to a concept. In their worlds adults come and go all of the time in their lives and the passing of a relative (unless a primary caregiver) would have …
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II passed away on 8th September 2022 and the UK has entered a period of national mourning. This has evoked a strong emotional reaction across the country, bringing people together in a sense of shared loss and many children and young people are likely to be exposed to this directly and …
What causes tantrums? Generally tantrums are caused by the brain being overloaded. Often what happens is that the brain hasn’t learnt how to process the emotions that your child is currently feeling. That’s why logic and reason don’t work at this point. And that’s why this is the point when we’ve felt like smacking them …
Want a popular child? Get on the floor and play with your child We want to raise our children to be social experts, to know how to make friends and build strong and lasting relationships. We want our children to be liked and popular, have fun at school and not make lots of enemies, …
How do babies learn to smile? What makes us smile? A smile is a powerful thing, but we are not born with the ability to smile. During the first few months of our lives we experiment with moving the muscles in our face and pull thousands of different facial expressions, so why do we …