Tips, topics, ideas, advice and food for thought to prompt discussions and
interactions between you and your child that will help them navigate life.
(Also - a little bit about what I have been up to.)
Here is a reframing tool I discovered recently that’s so simple, it’s brilliant. It helps children (and adults) deal less…
This week’s video: Pause and Cool Down (cooling down strategies), goes very well with last week’s video: The Pause button…
I am going to ask you (as a parent/carer/teacher/anyone who has regular contact with children) to think hard about the…
We know when we’re hungry right? But do we tune into the symptoms that tell us that we are: an…
This ‘anger words’ sheet is used in my latest video in the series: ACTIVITIES TO EXPLORE EMOTIONS that I will…
Over the next few months, I am going to post twenty very short videos describing some activities that can be…
There are emotional responses like fear and shock that are straightforward reactions that are about keeping us safe. These emotions…
I worked for ten years in a pupil referral unit with children who struggled to regulate their emotions, who regularly…
With the exception of someone like me, some teachers and some parents/carers putting emotions on the agenda, our society, in…
It’s another thing to worry about as a parent/carer for sure: has my child got enough friends? Do they manage their…
Mindfulness, ‘presence’, being in the moment, ‘existing in the ‘now’, transcending thought etc, all seem to be about achieving a…
A useful way of thinking of emotions is to think of them as visitors to your body that come, and…
