Category Archives: Teenagers

Surviving school holidays. School holidays are a time of holidays and a break from school. School holidays can fill parents with dread and fear.  Surviving school holidays with your children can seem daunting. School holidays can be a nightmare for Read more...

What do you do when your child’s school attendance is poor? Lets be clear this isn’t a child feigning illness to dodge a sports day or test its a child continually struggling at school. Low school attendance through struggling emotionally Read more...

The favourite child or parents trap. What to do when your Child has a FAVOURITE parent? 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. I was clearly his favourit Read more...

How do we avoid childhood obesity in our children?   A new report details what most parents know, why our children have stopped moving and childhood obesity is growing. Children will sit and play on technology all day if they are left. They don& Read more...

Quality time on a family holiday can be elusive and for some parents spending that much time with their children daunting. Taking the time to think about what you want from a family holiday can avoid some of those stresses and pitfalls. Family holida Read more...

Is WhatsApp safe for children. A question we’ve been asking ourselves more and more recently. We say is WhatsApp safe for children but there are other messaging apps but WhatsApp is the one we know and use as parents. My wife’s phones ble Read more...

Helping Your Child In a CAHMS Mental Health Crisis If Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAHMS) fails you what would you do? As I write this blog, it is mental health awareness week, which aims to bring awareness to the issues around mental 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...

Are Kids Being BRAINWASHED by Social Media? 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 Read more...

Shouting at Children: The Hidden Damage and a Kinder Calmer Way Forward Talk to Kids Without Yelling? Is this possible? As parents, we all want the best for our children. We strive to raise happy, confident, well-rounded individuals who feel secure i Read more...