Children And Young People: Ask More Questions!

If you want to have less arguments, more clear thinking and better understanding the key is in your communication and specifically the questions you ask. Using good quality questions you can begin to discover what is behind the behaviour and emotions of others for better understanding. ———————————————***———————————————- SNAPCHAT[…]

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Children and Young People: Can You Grow Resilience?

Resilience is a buzz-word used by lots of people these days and often it gets muddled up with confidence and self-esteem. Resilience is your ability to bounce back after having a bad experience or some kind of negative situation. It’s not about whether or not you are affected,[…]

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Helping Professional to Improve Concentration in Children and Young People

Last month I talked about how parents can help improve concentration in their children and received an overwhelming response from professionals asking how they can help out too. Never fear I have some advice for you too! There are some really simple exercises we can teach children to[…]

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Helping Parents to Improve Concentration in Children and Young People

I consider concentration skills to be a slightly delicate area. Let me explain why. In my Hertfordshire therapy clinic, I see a lot of well-meaning parents who bring their children to see me because they want their children to concentrate better – particularly in the academic areas of[…]

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Children and Teenagers: Stop Your Anxiety

3 tips from me to help you begin to gain control of your anxiety. If you have developed your own management strategies that work, or you’ve overcome your anxiety completely let me know how you did it!      

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5 Ways of Increasing Positive Attitudes in Children

The current environment we live in presents us with lots of negative and challenging situations. Knowing that life can be overwhelming, putting a positive slant on our daily activities or tasks can make life more enjoyable and manageable. If we instil a positive attitude in our children they[…]

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Behaviour Frameworks for Children and Teenagers

I read somewhere that children who are disciplined feel more loved and that clear behaviour frameworks improve children’s mental health. It can be difficult to believe that sometimes when all they seem to want to do is push the boundaries! Whether they are toddlers or teenagers there is[…]

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Tips on Building Your Child’s Self-Esteem For Academic Success

Healthy self-esteem is like an armor of protection against the challenges we face in the outside world. Therefore, it’s especially important that we develop a positive self-image early on in life, specifically beginning during childhood. Children who are aware of their strengths and weaknesses and feel good about[…]

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Can You Teach Children Confidence?

I’ve just finished watching an episode of The Wright Stuff, broadcast on Wednesday 26th June 2013.   http://www.channel5.com/shows/the-wright-stuff/episodes/episode-123-49 One of the topics for discussion was “Can you teach confidence?” following reports that a school in London is teaching children comedy in order to make them more confident people.  The[…]

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Who’s Supporting The Bully?

Bullying is still prevalent – research carried out by the NSPCC at the start of 2013 states that: • Of the children surveyed 46% of children have been bullied in school. • Of all the children who called Childline in 2011/12, the predominant reason that boys called was[…]

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