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.
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.
We all know what ‘moods’ are but we don’t often give them a lot of thought. Such...
Read moreI have uploaded some more unusual activities from my books to keep your younguns...
Read moreThis is a short post to introduce the idea of taking an emotion at a time and...
Read moreYou can download a free activity pack that is great to use alongside my book, 'It's OK...
Read moreI remember whining ‘I’m bored’ with some regularity when I was a child. Although I...
Read moreAnxiety seems to be very much on the up. I don’t think this is overly surprising. The...
Read moreI often marvel at how the emotions of situations are so rarely acknowledged despite...
Read moreI read an article recently that said many people were finding coming out of lockdown...
Read moreI honestly think it would be impossible to get out of childhood unscathed! Our parents...
Read moreI had just been thinking how my books (the ones that deal with emotions which is all...
Read moreThis is a small part of CFT by Dr Paul Gilbert that I think you could very usefully...
Read more(You will have to forgive me – I cannot source any of this theory but I hope to soon. ...
Read moreI am reading ‘The school of life’ introduced by Alan de Botton. It’s a great...
Read moreAs an exhausted parent/carers/teachers, we tend to manage difficult behaviours in a...
Read moreAs I have said before, simply increasing your child’s emotion vocabulary improves...
Read moreI am sure many of you have heard the Stanford marshmallow experiment where young...
Read moreI was disappointed this week in an ‘I was really, really looking forward to something...
Read moreIt’s a very obvious statement when I say that what we think can impact on how we feel...
Read moreThis week I have a new book out which I am delighted about. It is very much linked to...
Read moreGenerally, our emotions are not focussed on other than when the reactions to them are...
Read moreThis week I was lucky enough to be interviewed by Lily Law from, 'The Lady' about what...
Read moreAccording to modern evolutionary theory, our emotions evolved to guide our behaviour....
Read moreSeveral years ago I was speaking to a friend about managing emotions when he suddenly...
Read moreThis post was inspired by a performance I saw last night called 'Highly Sensitive...
Read moreThere is no doubt that some children are wired up to be more naturally empathetic than...
Read moreMindfulness has received a lot of attention in the last few years and for good reason...
Read moreI think most of us do it probably because our parents/carers did it: that is to...
Read moreI believe that as a nation, we are rubbish at debate. Although debate does happen in...
Read more'Sorry, sorry' you often hear a woman say when she has burst into tears. 'Man up,' or...
Read moreYou know how when you listen to a tune that evokes instant (and strong) happy memories...
Read moreThe emotion that seems to cause the most concern with parents/carers that I talk to is...
Read moreBeing a parent or carer is not an easy job. It's 24/7 and there isn't a manual to...
Read moreWhen it comes to talking to kids about sex, intimate relationships and body parts,...
Read moreWhen a child does something wrong, most of us have been taught that the child needs to...
Read moreThere are words for emotions in different languages that do not translate directly or...
Read moreObviously nobody can guess what another person is feeling with 100% accuracy all of...
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