Helping you to understand the mental health of children
10 top tips for super busy business parents during the summer break The summer vacation is here, for those of you who are business owners or entrepreneurs it means weeks of stress and guilt while you try and juggle parenting with working. So here are my top ten tips for super busy business parents. …
What are the long term implications of helicopter parenting? Helicopter parenting is a phrase used to describe a parent who hovers over their child’s actions. They remain close to their child at all times in case they need help or to keep a close eye on them. It can be linked to anxiety about a …
Why should you have family rules Boundaries are important to children. It’s how they learn a huge number of skills, these vary according to age: As a baby boundaries set the internal regulators that we rely on as adults. We learn how far our emotions need to go before they get capped (and in turn …
For adolescents it is important to stimulate the neurons growing in their mind as much as possible before they reach the middle of puberty. This help stimulate the different areas of the brain so that as it rewires over the following few years in preparation for adulthood. The best way of doing that is to …
What tomorrow’s world will be like Technology is advancing so fast that it will change the way the world operates for our children. By the time they grow up it is predicted that robots will be far cheaper than humans to do many jobs, that Artificial Intelligence (AI) will be a reality and that they …
Helping your child’s emotions We learn the importance of cuddling when we are infants, it helps bond us to our mother. It’s one of the lessons we pick up in the first few weeks of our lives, that when we are upset or emotionally aroused in some way that we can be reassured by a …
Helping the holidays teach your child lifelong lessons For children Christmas is a time of joy, but also a time of far too much stimulation. All around the globe children are getting overwhelmed with the festival and meltdowns are creeping in. Children are having tantrums about the tiniest little things and there are parents …
Avoiding early sexualisation of children The modern world is full of threats for our children, it’s a very stressful time to be raising our children. One of the biggest headaches for parents and carers is the advent of social media. Be it Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest or Twitter, you can communicate with people all over …
“I know I have a daddy, but can I call you daddy?” Being a step-parent is a fantastic experience, one of the best in the world and one of the worst all at the same time, you feel like you are intruding and stepping on someone else’s toes at the same time as trying to …
Helping children overcome grief, separation, trauma or loss There are many things in life that threaten our inner secure self, this potentially includes things like divorce, grief, witnessing traumatic events or deaths, loss, theft, attacks to name but a few… As adults we recognise these things and learn to re-establish our own inner wellbeing to …