Increase Self-Belief in Children – 5 Things You Must Do

  Self-belief in children is crucial, as it determines what they think they can and can’t do. A lack of self-belief can limit the things they do or even try to do and it generally leads to poor results.  Whereas children with a strong self-belief in themselves will[…]

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5 Ways to Increase a Child’s Self Esteem

A child with a healthy self-esteem is one who generally has a can do attitude. He/she is willing to give things a go and feels good about themselves. In contrast, a child with poor self-esteem has a hard time finding solutions to problems and when faced with new[…]

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How Do You Eat an Elephant?

I first heard the question “How do you eat an elephant?” about two decades ago in my corporate life. “One bite at a time” seemed an uninspiring answer for an ambitious marketer looking out for the latest hot management theory. Little did I know, it would become one[…]

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Making School Transition Seamless

More schools are becoming aware of the importance of helping children transition from primary to secondary school and how vast the change in environment can feel for some pupils. There is often some distinct sensory differences between the two environments. Primary schools tend to be quieter, with less[…]

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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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What 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[…]

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Not Counselling Children

Yesterday after a rowdy and somewhat chaotic session of perceptual positions with my Y6 group, I sat in the hall waiting to see if anyone would show up for a drop in session with me. This is like counselling for problems that crop up on the playground, but[…]

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Does the second week back to school unleash the “Steaming Feeling”?

I’ve seen a variety of children this week, with different life experiences, different ages and with very different parents, however there have been two thing in common with all of them, it’s been the second week back at school and they’ve all displayed various levels of what I[…]

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We’ve had a busy week…

We’ve had a very busy week at NLP4Kids HQ as our quest to find more child therapists for our children’s franchise continues. We sent out an eshot this week to the Executives On The Web database advertising NLP4Kids as an education franchise and we’ve had several enquiries and[…]

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Therapeutic After School Clubs?

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[…]

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