Tag: confidence
What CAN You Do?
I often see young people at my therapy space in Hertfordshire who have been brought along by their parents because they (as parents) are worried about their progress in some way – be it academically, socially or emotionally. It makes perfect sense to me that when a human[…]
Read moreStop Your Anxiety (Part 2)
3) If you are someone, like me, who is highly visual, then you will be good at making up scenes in your mind. It may be that you have a super overactive imagination. A wonderful imagination can be a brilliant thing – providing that you put it to[…]
Read moreResolving Friendship Problems in the Classroom
As we have known for sometime, it can be a challenge to focus on our work when we have other emotional problems that we are simultaneously attempting to resolve in our minds. There is only a small number of things we can do at the same time and[…]
Read moreCreating Motivation to Change in Teenagers
Once upon a time there was a lovely communicative child who had a great desire to please their parents and enjoyed playing with their younger siblings. One night they went to bed and when they woke up the next morning, to the parents horror, the child had turned[…]
Read moreOvercoming School Anxiety
Typically (though not always) school anxiety occurs after a transition. That transition could be from nursery to primary school, from primary to secondary school (most common) or after a change of schools as a result of a change of circumstances (such as moving house to a new area[…]
Read moreHas Your School Rejected £7,500 of Funding?
In recent months, NLP4Kids has set up a not-for-profit branch to the company. This has allowed us to begin to access funding to deliver our services to schools, without the schools having to pay for it. You’d have thought they would be biting off our hand to get[…]
Read more5 Ways to Increase Confidence in Children
I still remember the time when I was 11 years of age, and loved singing and sang at every opportunity. A talent show was coming up at the local community centre and my mother enrolled me to sing. I thoroughly practiced a beautiful song my mother wrote for[…]
Read moreWhat To Do When The Fast Phobia Cure For Children, Isn’t Fast.
I recently met a teenager who had a fear of flying. His fear had become so intense that last year, as the entire family set off for a family holiday, he decided in the middle of the airport that he would not be getting on the plane. At[…]
Read moreCan 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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