Practical steps to help your child self-soothe
Following on why self-soothing matters, here are my practical steps for helping both babies and older children learn how to self-soothe and settle. It is important not to rush this.
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The Importance of Self-Soothing for Sleep
Self-soothing is an essential skill for your child to learn, both for getting off to sleep and for sleeping independently through the night. Whatever your child’s age, the goal is
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8 tips On How to Use Consequences Effectively
Every child’s behaviour tells a story, and consequences are one of the ways we respond to that story. Not to punish, but to teach: decision-making, accountability, and the simple, steadying
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Five Positive Ways to Manage Anger
Anger gets a bad press, which leaves many parents unsure how to handle it well. Being angry is not bad, in itself. Sometimes there are excellent reasons to feel angry
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12 Simple Ways to enhance your child’s Self – Esteem
Self-esteem comes up in my clinic constantly. Some days it is easy to see when a child feels good about themselves, and other days it is much harder to read.
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Helping your Child Sleep in their Own Bed
For many of you, your child sleeping in your bed may not be a problem, and it’s entirely up to you to decide when it is the right time for
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The Power of Play and How You Use it to Help Your Child De-Stress
Play is essential for children and adults, too. Most of us don’t realise that play is universal, whatever the culture or society. The only difference is the attitude concerning the
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Praise and Encourage for Change, my Top Tips on using Praise Effectively
It is tempting, when things at home feel hard, to focus on what is going wrong. When you are in my sessions, most parents naturally want to talk about the
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Managing your child’s Anger using Positive Discipline
Anger is one of the most common themes I see in my clinic. It is something we all struggle to manage well, in ourselves as much as in our children.
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7 Survival Skills For Parenting Teenagers
It might be the fifth slammed door this week, or the silence at dinner that used to be chatter. You ask a simple question and get a shrug, or worse,
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