What are the key ingredients to ensuring your child’s mental health is the best it can be? As mental illness is slowly becoming less of a taboo subject in modern society, now more than ever is the perfect time to talk about mental health in children. Whereas in my own generation, mental health was not […]
What it’s like to go through childhood with an undiagnosed anxiety disorder…
First signs When I was much younger I was convinced that if my parents ever left my sight, they would almost certainly die. I was inconsolable every time they went out for one of their (very rare) date nights at the local pub and no amount of reassurance would stop me from ruining their starters […]
What Does the Digital Age mean for Our Children?
Many of us come from a childhood without technology as we know it today. We played outside more, we had 3 or 4 channels on terrestrial television and the programming for children wasn’t available 24/7. The internet wasn’t even a thing – crazy hey! Video games didn’t become mainstream until our teenage years or even […]
The Homework Debate
Is it Good for Mental Health and Learning? A 2014 report for the Department for Education showed that year 9 students who spend between 2 to 3 hours of homework each weeknight were 9 times more likely to achieve 5 good GCSEs (grade A-C) compared with children who didn’t do any. After a day at […]
Do Something Extraordinary in 2019…
January has been a testing time – not to mention it has been never ending. It’s not just a grown up problem but something the kids have felt equally. Lets put ourselves in their shoes… The all time high excitement of the festive season came and went. They’re in the swing of a challenging school […]
Meditation For Little Ones – Getting Your Children To Practice Mindfulness
Mindfulness – it’s a phrase that you’ve probably heard more than you realise. In fact, with forward-thinking employers offering mindfulness training, mindfulness colouring books available on magazine stands and commuters tuning out the hustle and bustle with mindful apps like Headspace and Calm – you’ll find that mindfulness is actually everywhere! But What is Mindfulness? […]
Arts and Crafts – More Than Just Creative Fun
Therapy comes in many different shapes and sizes. For some, visiting a therapist helps dramatically, others benefit from mindfulness practices. There are those that find improvement in their mental health through exercise. These are all well-known for being beneficial, but art therapy is relatively new to psychotherapy and it’s helping many people improve. In the […]
Managing Excitement Levels to Avoid Those Special Occasion Tears
We all know the drill. A holiday, birthday or (dare we mention it) Christmas is looming on the horizon and the kids are so excited that nothing is fun anymore. It’s easy for stress levels to be high in these situations. Particularly when your over-excited children are unable to sleep and are suffering tantrums and […]
Top Tips on How to Get Your Creative Child to Settle Down
A creative child is a gift for any parent, but their active mind and natural urge to express their emotions can be tiring for parents and other children in the family. There will be times when the creative side of your child’s personality needs to be reined in a little, which can be somewhat stressful […]
Childhood Anxiety: See it Early
Adults can often feel a bout of anxiety coming on and know what to do to overcome it. Even still, anxiety can be nothing short of paralysing. Anxiety can manifest physically; resulting in sweaty palms, heart palpitations and the inability to think or act rationally. Other times anxiety can prevent you from saying what you […]