17 ideas to empower your child with skills that help them cope when feeling anxious and help reduce anxiety.
Quick Ideas to Look After You
8 quick ideas and mindset shifts to help you prioritise your needs and avoid feeling overwhelmed, stressed, resentful, or irritable.
Getting Comfortable With Emotions
One of the hardest parts of being a parent is getting comfortable with holding space for our children’s emotions - all of them! This blog explores the key to keeping on an even keel.
Repair After A Rupture
Explore common areas of ruptures (they’re not all obvious) and how you can repair and deepen your relationship with your child.
Kids & Homework - creating a more joyful duo!
Learn simple things you can do to decrease homework issues and help your child engage with the work that needs to be done.
Boundaries, Expectations & Rules: A Guide!
Explore how to set boundaries and rules to benefit your child, yourself and your relationship.
Self Esteem & Social Media
Do you want to help your child to build resistance to the toxic side of social media? Read on for my tips on the subject.
Smoothing the Transition to Secondary School
Help your child prepare both mentally and practically for the transition to secondary school with these simple ideas.
Toddlers & Boundaries
4 simple steps to help you feel confident and calmer when setting boundaries for your toddler
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
5 Questions for Parents to Gain Clarity
Sometimes parenting can feel like a big old jumble. We know that something isn’t working but we don’t know exactly what is going wrong. So here are 5 questions to help you gain a bit of clarity.
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…
Shift Focus: 7 Day Quest
As parents, our focus can all too often be on our child’s undesirable behaviour, but if we are able to step back from time to time and use our photographer’s eye, we can focus on what’s useful in the moment.
This series of questions is aimed at helping you consider the view of parenting and your child through multiple lenses.
Emotions & Dance: The Value of Connecting Mind and Body
I love dancing my emotions. My emotional dances are not glamourous, they would not win awards for choreography nor would they provide entertainment on the stage, however, they were for me a life-changing joyful lockdown discovery!
Here’s why…
7 Tips to Survive Lockdown (again!) With Kids
The novelty of the first lockdown has worn off, the weather is colder and the pressure to keep things going smoothly is immense. I found using the small windows of free time in beneficial ways hard, so I did some thinking to help myself gain focus and have implemented changes I’ve found make a difference. I hope my ideas will help you keep calm(ish) too.