“Parenting with Peace: Strategies to Stay Calm and Centered”
Parenting is a remarkable and fulfilling journey, but it can bring many moments of powerlessness. This can often lead to us being triggered and a longing for inner peace can
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6 Actions To Avoid During A Meltdown or Tantrum: Calming Emotional Storms
Parenting can be challenging, but it’s important to remember that we don’t have to be flawless all the time. During times of emotional turmoil in our children, it’s important to
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Meltdowns, Anger, and Tantrums: Navigating Emotional Storms
As a parent, you’ve probably experienced your fair share of emotional storms with your child. Sometimes they come out of nowhere like lightening, so dealing with tantrums, meltdowns, and anger
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Positive Discipline Versus Punishment: Choosing the Path to Effective Parenting
I totally understand how challenging it can be when our children question our authority. It’s a common theme that many parents face in my practice. Finding the right balance in
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Sandplay Therapy: Building Bridges to Healing
As a parent, you want to do everything you can to help your child. When they’re struggling, it can be heartbreaking to watch and you may feel helpless. “If you
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Understanding the Link Between Sleep Problems and Nighttime Fears
Often, parents reach out to me seeking guidance with their child’s sleep and anxiety problems. Sometimes, a child may need to have a parent nearby as they fall asleep, which
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Tips to Minimise Stress during the Christmas Season
It’s the Christmas season again. Time pressure, finding the perfect gifts for everyone and managing the children. It’s a highly stressful time. If the burden of making the holidays epically
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Common Sleep Mistakes: clocks “fall back” on the 29th of October
This is an updated post from last year. The leaves are changing colours, and the weather is getting cooler….. The warm weather has all lulled us this year. However, yes,
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Myth Busting Anxiety
I’ve created a collection of commonly held misconceptions and myths about anxiety to help parents comprehend and help their children. I will cover various themes and management strategies related to
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9 Tips to Help your Child Settle at Holiday Club
This is an updated post. I hope it helps your child settle into a club over the summer. We look forward to the summer holidays with mixed feelings, don’t we?
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Managing New School Transitions
This is updated for parents worried about how their child will manage the transition to school in the Autumn term. Transitions, comings, and goings (attachments and separations) are all part
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Clocks Going Forward Sunday the 26th of March.
The clocks will go forward one hour on Sunday, March 26th, at 1 am. This means we all lose an hour. To remember which direction to change the clocks, there
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