Things to talk to your kids about - Molly Potter
Tips, topics, ideas, advice and food for thought to prompt discussions and different interactions between your child and you that will help them navigate life a little better.
June 23rd, 2021
This book is due out this October. I have seen the PDF of it and Sarah Jenning’s...
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May 25th, 2021
I wrote this post for another blog as it is aimed at adults. However, I think there is...
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May 20th, 2021
I created this worry machine a while ago for World Book Day, setting children the task...
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April 30th, 2021
April 21st, 2021
April 12th, 2021
The teachers of Year 6 of Hampton Junior School contacted me about an exciting project...
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March 26th, 2021
In a pupil referral unit, point blank refusal from a child is such a regular event...
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March 21st, 2021
For an absolutely wonderful local independent book shop and for World Book Day, I made...
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March 18th, 2021
We all know the many wisdoms said about making mistakes that tell us about them being...
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February 23rd, 2021
It’s been a weird time for all of us. And soon for many children, it’s time to return...
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February 16th, 2021
It is really important that we never label emotions 'good' or 'bad' with our children...
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February 4th, 2021
I wrote, ‘What’s going on inside my head?’ as a tool to help parents/carers...
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January 14th, 2021
We all know what ‘moods’ are but we don’t often give them a lot of thought. Such...
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January 6th, 2021
I have uploaded some more unusual activities from my books to keep your younguns...
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November 29th, 2020
As I have said in earlier posts, healthy emotions arrive and leave. In other words:...
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November 18th, 2020
This is a short post to introduce the idea of taking an emotion at a time and...
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November 12th, 2020
You can download a free activity pack that is great to use alongside my book, 'It's OK...
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November 10th, 2020
I remember whining ‘I’m bored’ with some regularity when I was a child. Although I...
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October 19th, 2020
Anxiety seems to be very much on the up. I don’t think this is overly surprising. The...
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September 11th, 2020
I often marvel at how the emotions of situations are so rarely acknowledged despite...
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July 9th, 2020
I read an article recently that said many people were finding coming out of lockdown...
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July 2nd, 2020
I honestly think it would be impossible to get out of childhood unscathed. Our parents...
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April 1st, 2020
I had just been thinking how my books (the ones that deal with emotions which is all...
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March 22nd, 2020
This is a small part of CFT by Dr Paul Gilbert that I think you could very usefully...
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March 8th, 2020
(You will have to forgive me – I cannot source any of this theory but I hope to soon. ...
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February 23rd, 2020
I am reading ‘The school of life’ introduced by Alan de Botton. It’s a great...
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January 30th, 2020
As exhausted parents/carers/teachers, we tend to manage difficult behaviours in a...
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December 27th, 2019
As I have said before, simply increasing your child’s emotion vocabulary improves...
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October 23rd, 2019
I am sure many of you have heard the Stanford marshmallow experiment where young...
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September 23rd, 2019
I was disappointed this week in an ‘I was really, really looking forward to something...
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September 17th, 2019
It’s a very obvious statement when I say that what we think can impact on how we feel...
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September 8th, 2019
This week I have a new book out which I am delighted about. It is very much linked to...
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August 21st, 2019
Generally, our emotions are not focussed on other than when the reactions to them are...
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July 7th, 2019
This week I was lucky enough to be interviewed by Lily Law from, 'The Lady' about what...
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June 12th, 2019
According to modern evolutionary theory, our emotions evolved to guide our behaviour....
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