Category Archives: Teenagers

School holidays how to survive 6 weeks with your children. School holidays are a time of holidays and a break from school. School holidays can fill parents with dread and fear.  6 weeks with your children can seem daunting. School holidays can be a Read more...

What to do if your child won’t go to school? Lets be clear this isn’t a child feigning illness to dodge a sports day or test its a child struggling at school. Struggling emotionally to an extent it negatively affecting their welfare and w Read more...

What to do when your child has a favourite? When my son was about eight years old, he went through a phase of preferring to sit next to me and spend most of his time closer to me, It drove my wife crazy. If I’m honest, I kind of secretly liked it, Read more...

A new report details what most parents know, why our children have stopped moving. Children will sit and play on technology all day if they are left. They don’t need to interact as the technology engages them. The report also details that lack Read more...

Things to consider when planning a holiday Age appropriate holidays Holidays and holiday parks cater to age groups.  Our children have outgrown quite a lot and when we go away now were looking for facilities for older children.  Read the reviews an Read more...

My wife’s phones bleeps when messages are received into her school parents Whats App group. You know when somethings up as the bleeps get more frequent and the interval between bleeps shortens. Its like artillery in a war, each side exchanging Read more...

Helping Your Child In a Mental Health Crisis As I write this blog, it is mental health awareness week, which aims to bring awareness to the issues around mental illness. For some time, I have personally worried about the current explosion in mental h Read more...

Is free range parenting just going back to a  simpler time? Its easy to think of free range parenting as a Hollywood fad that’s really just 70’s parenting. Its true free range parenting is all about allowing greater freedoms to teach you Read more...

Social media influence scares me. I’m a parent of teenagers and social media is their life. The influence of social media is frightening and real. As a parent i’m concerned. Its not as simple as stopping them looking at it. Its a far bigg Read more...

Shouting at Children: The Hidden Damage and a Kinder Calmer Way Forward As parents, we all want the best for our children. We strive to raise happy, confident, well-rounded individuals who feel secure in themselves and their environment. But sometime Read more...