Wanting to know if time outs are effective? If you are a parent you have likely heard of a time out where a child who is misbehaving, being naughty, having a tantrum or meltdown get’s sent away to their room or to a designated area… Read More »Do Time Out’s Work?
Avoiding Mental Health Issues In Children By Acknowledging Their Feelings How were your feelings dealt with a child? This crucial question can help parents understand why they find parenting so difficult at times because it parents grew up not being able to express their feelings… Read More »Steps to take to Protect a Child’s Mental Health
Help! I’m not a calm parent Do you struggle being a calm parent? Do you beat yourself up for not being a calm parent? Do you look at other parents and wonder how they have it all together and you don’t? Do you vow every… Read More »Struggling To Be A Calm Parent?
The Antidote To Parenting Guilt The other day I found a video on my phone from 2018 when my daughters were one and three. I was filming my reaction to my ex husband trying to get our daughters to sleep. All you could hear was… Read More »Parent Guilt and How To Create Change
Are you finding parenting difficult? There’s no denying parenting is tough and in todays climate we are expected to do it all. We no longer have the village and there’s many people who are parenting in isolation and who are unsupported and trying to pour… Read More »8 Reasons Why Parenting Might Feel Difficult
4 Steps to Healthy Parenting during a Crisis A crisis can influence your child’s emotional well-being in a short period. Use your hope and love for them to offer a buffer between their experience and their mental health. Here are a few parenting tips that… Read More »Parenting Tips in a Crisis
Grief is a complex emotion that affects both children and adults. But its expression changes with age. Adults practice grieving rituals and seek closure and support for their loss. This helps them move on with time. As parents, we are responsible to help children with… Read More »Parenting Tips When Dealing with Grief
Children can get bored quickly, and when that happens, they tend to act up or make a mess at home. Even if they aren’t bored, kids do tend to act up when they feel upset or bothered about something — and that’s totally understandable. Spending… Read More »Tapping Into Nature: How to Help Children Calm Down Outdoors
Reward Charts When parent’s find themselves struggling with their child’s behaviour they often try any strategy they can in hopes of changing their child’s behaviour. The thing is do rewards work long term and can they do more harm than good? Why do parents use… Read More »Do Reward Charts work?
Books for Parenting Teenagers Books for Parenting Teenagers Parenting teenagers is so different from parenting little kids. Maybe you feel you’ve finally got the hang of parenting and then when you reach the teenage years everything changes again and you find yourself confused, locked in… Read More »Books for parenting teenagers