When Anger Takes Over Your Life

This is a personal story and one I haven’t shared very much. A lot of people who know me now certainly wouldn’t recognise the person I was when I was a lot younger. In my late teenager years I used to be very angry; quite a lot of[…]

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How Do You Help a Child Who Falls Out With Their Best Friend?

As a child, isn’t it true that we’ve all ‘fallen out’ with a best friend at some stage of our younger lives? If you did, how did it end out for you, and how did you feel? Did you ‘make up’, or did you forever remain enemies? The[…]

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When Mum Leaves Dad….

Separation of a child’s parents can be a traumatic experience in any child’s life. The child can feel as if their world has been turned upside down. However, if effectively managed, this traumatic experience could be diluted to being another change in the child’s life- yet still significant.[…]

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Preparing Children for Divorce

I remember reading on the back of a smoothy drink “Contents may separate, but mummy and daddy both still love you very much.” I thought it was funny and I also thought about the importance of how to explain changes in family life to children. It seems to[…]

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Welcome to the NLP4Kids Team- Tina Sidhu

NLP4Kids are delighted to announce a new member to the NLP4Kids team. Tina Sidhu, from Buckinghamshire, who is very passionate in helping children and young people to reach their full potential in life. Tina’s background includes a BA degree in Business & Sociology from Kingston University. She began her[…]

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How to Maintain Connections as an Absent Parent

The key thing in this article is that despite being an absent parent, you are one who wants to develop or maintain a connection to your children. Having the will to make it work in spite of the challenges this presents is the key. How specifically you will[…]

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Calming a Child with ADHD

ADHD is made up of two key challenging disorders. Attention deficit and hyperactivity. Both of these disorders can exist without the other, meaning that someone can have attention deficit without being hyperactive or they can be hyperactive without attention deficit. A few years ago, I was approached by[…]

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Resolving 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[…]

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Creating 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[…]

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Overcoming 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[…]

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