We’ve recently set up a Facebook collaboration with Child Eyes (https://www.facebook.com/ChildEyes) I found their page really interesting because they highlight the images that children are bombarded with that, it could be argued cause them to grow up too quick. One of the photos they published recently showed children’s magazines a shelf down from almost pornographic
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Therapeutic After School Clubs?
By Gemma Bailey
on Apr 14th, 2013
I recently posted on the NLP4Kids Facebook page about a very young person I had met aged 9 if I recall correctly, who attended an after school activity every night of the week, on a Saturday and a further 3 on Sundays. As ever, opinion on where this was good or bad divided opinion! When
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Teaching Tools: Fairy Tales – just a story…?
By diananlp4kids-org
on Mar 4th, 2013
So why Fairy Tales are important? Because they have such an ability to engage our mind and imagination. They take us to a place where everything is possible and THAT has a huge power and effect on our Thinking and Learning!!! I love Fairy Tales! I consider them the “REAL” stories with goodies and badies,
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Teaching Tools: Being in a ‘Learning State’
By diananlp4kids-org
on Mar 4th, 2013
‘Learning State’ What is a Learning State? In this article, I would like to explore the idea that the Learning State is a state where the mind and body is at its optimum ability to achieve great results. If we look at Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, first, we need our basic needs met before we can really fulfil our higher
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Story Telling
By javier-orti
on Feb 7th, 2013
I regularly work with children in my West London practice who face different worry inducing situations. In some cases they suffer from anxiety, in others, they have fear of failing, sometimes they lack the motivation to study and in some cases they don’t know how to face up to bullying. In my therapy session many
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Music, TV and Computer Games
By Gemma Bailey
on Jan 8th, 2013
I joined a gym recently (that in itself is a revelation trust me!). As I was jogging away, I was listening to a podcast on my iPhone. I do this because I don’t always like to listen to the music that is blaring in the gym. However I can still see the TV screens showing
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Impact
By Gemma Bailey
on Dec 21st, 2012
Recently the NLP4Kids team got together for a research project. We are going to be researching the effectiveness of our work in a measured way in a specific area of NLP with a specific defined group of people. On the day, we were very fortunate to have the insight of Olive Hickmott a specialist in
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Happy Everywhere
By Gemma Bailey
on Dec 3rd, 2012
A couple of weeks ago NLP4Kids went into schools, offering free confidence building workshops in exchange for pupils donating to children in need. Lewis my assistant and I went into Christchurch School where we worked with four classes, years 3 to 6. Each class had over 30 children in and the workshops were performed back
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Helping Children and Young People Tackle Depression
By Gemma Bailey
on Oct 24th, 2012
Amongst stress and anxiety, depression in children is one of the top mental health conditions that young people face. When talking about child therapy depression comes up more often than not. Depression is an extreme feeling of hopelessness, sadness and lack of self esteem. Everyone feels sad sometimes, but when a child is depressed, the
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Helping Children and Young People Overcome Anxiety
By Gemma Bailey
on Oct 24th, 2012
When talking about child therapy anxiety is one of the hot topics of conversation. Anxiety is an intense feeling of fear or worry. Both of these are natural feeling but can cause a problem if a child feels unable to gain control of these emotions or if they are struck with a sudden anxiety attack