Help your child prepare both mentally and practically for the transition to secondary school with these simple ideas.
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Facilitating Sibling Harmony
If you are feeling frustrated or overwhelmed by the bickering and rivalry, these tips are for you.
3 Things to Understand About Behaviour.
Understand 3 key things and you are on the way to having more fun with your child, parenting calmly and helping your child navigate the complexity of communicating their needs.
Building Self-Esteem in Your Child
Discover 4 common parenting traps that chip away at a child’s self-esteem and how to avoid them.
Without intending to, or realising it, we can do things that we consider to be in our child’s best interests but turn out to have a negative impact. So how do we avoid these traps and what do we do instead?
Labels & How to Avoid Them
We are told labelling our kids is a bad idea but what is it, why don’t we want to do it and how can we avoid it? Read on to find out and to discover 5 steps to prevent it from happening in your family.
How to Raise Courageous Children
Children need courage to embrace life fully so how can we help to facilitate them to be courageous?
I think there are 5 key things…
Acceptance
Attention
Appreciation
Praise in Moderation
A Courageous Role Model
A Step by Step Process to Addressing Challenging Behaviour
There are always going to be times when you want to address behaviour that isn’t acceptable. This guide will help you do so effectively while nurturing and deepening your relationship with your child.
Deepening Your Relationship with Good Questions
The answer is only as good as the question, so if we want to get to know our child on a deeper level, we need to get good at asking questions they are interested in answering!
If you want the answers to keep coming, here are some rules before you begin…
Appreciation vs Praise (& Why Knowing the Difference is Key)
Praise is nice where appreciation is awesome. So what is the difference and why does it matter to our children that we know?
Read on to find out….
Why Listening to Our Children is Important
Listening to your child with half an ear while you do something else isn’t the kind of listening we’re talking about here! To parent well listening is a skill you need to learn so here's why it matters and how to do it.
When we are listening in a way that benefits our child, we are listening to…