Helping you to understand the mental health of children
As a parent it is easy for us to be on broadcast, to tell our child what they should do or how they should feel. However, as our children develop their independence, we want to be in a position to give them advice for them to make their mind up with. To start with you …
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 …
How to keep your children safe from abusers Many parents are concerned about the risk of their teenager becoming victim to an abuser either in-person or online. Leading child behaviour expert, Richard Daniel Curtis, explains some of the signs that parents need to watch out for and what they can do. The stages of grooming: …
Parenting a teen can be a complicated business, it can be hard knowing how to cut the apron strings. Many a parent face a daily internal battle trying to decide how much advice to give their teen verses letting them learn a life lesson and then having to help them to pick up the pieces. …
Having trouble getting your teenager to find employment? (don’t talk about what job they want, talk about the problem they want to solve) So, your teenager is approaching adulthood and showing few signs of getting a job. When you were their age, you knew the direction you were going in and were actively working towards …
Doing homework with our children can be like an extra chore for us, you have to know they have it, remember to tell them to do it and know the methods and the answers! I am afraid to say that I can’t help you with all of these things, but have compiled a list of …
There are stories of teen or child stabbings in the news regularly. Sometimes they appear to be linked to gangs and other times it feels like a lone child, so why does it happen? Why do children carry knives? A knife is a very personal weapon, it’s there for people who will be close to …