As a nanny, I was very conscious of ensuring that all of the children felt that they had an equal (within reason) share of my time. We used to do an activity called DSNFSE (I know it’s not a very catchy title!) It stands for Do Something Nice[…]

“First, we have about 30 minutes of saying ‘No! I don’t want to go to bed’. Then I normally have to part drag him up the stairs to brush his teeth. We have a story together – one book is never enough – sometimes we will have up[…]

How can you encourage young people to concentrate? Is there really anything you can to to affect that or is it something as permanent as your finger print? The good news is there are some practical things we can do and there are also some more covert and[…]

I recently met a child who was behind in his academic learning somewhat. She would become frustrated in school, often with the other children and had been aggressive more than once towards her peers. As a result of this, the SENCO at school had suggested that perhaps the[…]

Two years ago, I worked in a primary school as their resident NLP4Kids practitioner. One of the requests that the school had made to me was to help the pupils, over the course of the term that I worked with them, to build up their levels of resilience.[…]

A new area of work that some of the NLP4Kids practitioners have embarked upon this year is supporting children in the British education system who have fled with their families from conflict zones. Aside from the obvious challenges of conditions such as PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder) which[…]

Anyone who has ever had children, knows children, or has been a child has probably experienced how quickly a stomach bug or a virus can spread around a class (and then onto the adults around them). Obviously it takes time for young children to build their immune system[…]

Have you ever been in a room full of people and felt like you were on the outside looking in? Feeling everyone else has something in common that you don’t know about?  Or perhaps like they’re speaking a language you don’t understand?  You may feel you don’t have[…]