Dec 3, 2020 | Boost your Child's Confidence, Parenting Tips, Raising Children through cancer, Seperation/Divorce
Parenting can be hard but parenting children with anxiety brings it to another level. When our kids suffer, we suffer. So when our kids have anxiety we are always on the lookout for how we can support and help them go back to being happy and stable again and just...
Oct 4, 2020 | Boost your Child's Confidence, Parenting Tips
Our kids’ behaviours and attitudes can really bring out the worst in us and make us do and say things which upon reflection we think, ‘Wow! That wasn’t my finest hour, I wish I could take that back!’ And I am sure we have all been there where we have (unintentionally)...
Aug 23, 2020 | Boarding Parents, Boost your Child's Confidence, Morning/Bedtime Routines, Parenting during the lockdown, Parenting Tips, Raising a single child!, Seperation/Divorce, Special Needs
We all love our kids and want them to be happy. And most parents will try to do anything and everything in pursuit of this. But it is often this anything or everything that stops us being the best parents we can for our kids and giving them what they really need, as...
Aug 20, 2020 | Boost your Child's Confidence, Healthy Eating Habits, Homework/Revision, Morning/Bedtime Routines, Parenting Tips, Screen Time, Sibling Rivalry, Special Needs, Toddlers, Tweens and Teens
We have all been there where we are in a hurry, tired or desperate and just don’t have the energy to keep asking politely; we need our kids to do things and get a move on and they don’t want to. So we grab what is always at hand: ‘threats’. But when we use threats and...
Aug 13, 2020 | Boost your Child's Confidence, Parenting Tips, Raising Children through cancer, Seperation/Divorce
No one goes through life completely free from stress or battles. So if we always protect our kids from these valuable learning experiences by protecting them, fixing and problem solving for them we rob them from some very useful opportunities that they will value (and...
Aug 5, 2020 | Boost your Child's Confidence, Parenting Tips, Seperation/Divorce
We all enter into a relationship with baggage from the past. Before we have kids it might not be so apparent, nor matter too much. But once we have a family our own mum or dad can suddenly come out in us. It can be a shock for the other parent to see a new side of...