As September looms ahead and school holidays draw to a close, it is not uncommon for both parents and their children to experience feelings of anxiety. The great thing about the back to school blues is that we know it’s coming, so we can plan ahead and make sure we have in place all those things we know make us feel better when we’re low.
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Adriana Galimberti-Rennie, Founder of Painless Divorce, Divorce Service gives advice to couples on the relation’s strain of Xmas time, which can be too much to bear. For some, the impending celebrations feel like a sham and bring with them a sense of dread, so much so that December and January can be the time when decisions to end a relationship come to the fore.
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Isra Altayar (IA Coaching) advises parents how to build children’s emotional resilience from a very young age to reduce mental health problems later in life.
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Is your child starting nursery or pre-school in 2018? Are you nervous about them starting nursery? Is your child anxious about the change ahead or struggling to settle in to nursery after starting in September? Top tips for parents from the author of ‘I’m Going To Nursery’
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These rather poignant words were uttered by a tearful 38 year old woman at my Clinic in Manchester. She was in fact quoting her bewildered youngest child who had found her bawling her eyes out one afternoon when everything just got too much.
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It’s that time of year again. The pressure to be perfect is never felt more acutely than at Christmas-time, when
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As children move out of toddlerhood, they should be starting to learn to control their anger – but between the ages of five and ten, they are still incompetent emotion managers. This means that they are still likely to find it difficult controlling and expressing their anger appropriately.
Common reasons for kids anger, ways they demonstrate it and techniques teach them to express their emotions more effectively and to communicate and controll their distress.
Modern homework is less about getting books out and sharpening pencils as firing up the computer and getting to grips with Google… But is it good for kids? Combined with all the instant and engaging (but soundbite-short) technology around them, our kids are growing up with ever-decreasing attention spans and thresholds for boredom… They are getting bored more easily and lack the skills to cure their ennui themselves.
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Encouraging kids to be kinder has so many benefits for both the giver and receiver that it may well be the best skill to send your child off with at the start of the new academic year. And because kindness spreads, just imagine what your child could begin this year!
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My recipe for the best summer ever? Pour in lots of chill out time, a healthy mix of friends and social opportunities with peers, sprinkle in a few family adventures, and maybe add a decadent topping of a day club or two. Stir well and enjoy!
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Five tips on how to build your child’s resilience
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