How can I Support the Kids through my Divorce?
M&D collaborated with Stowe Family Law, Altrincham to come up with 11 great pieces of advice on how to support the kids during your divorce:
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Creating Festive Joy (Despite the Pandemic!)
With all the unpredictability of 2020, a bit of guidance on how to manage the coming celebrations is what we need right now. The book “Creating Festive Joy (despite the pandemic)” offers some advice.
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How parents can help young children adjust to post-lockdown life
Dr Hayley Van Zwanenberg, child and adolescent psychiatrist at the Priory’s Wellbeing Centre in Oxford offers parents five tips for making the most of play during the summer holidays
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Ways to Comfort your Little Ones when they are Poorly
When little ones feel unwell with coughs, sore throats and blocked / runny noses, it can be a particularly stressful
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How to Talk to Children about the Lockdown
Consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist’s tips on how to help parents identify when their children are becoming overwhelmed by lockdown situation and how to help.
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The coronavirus spread forces everybody to change their routines, if not their lives, and creates unique issues for families with autistic children.
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Minding Your Mind
Every time a new statistical survey is conducted assessing the prevalence of diagnosed mental health disorders in children, it is inevitably followed by a media wave of debate, discussion and distress. Approximately 1 in 8 children are currently falling under the diagnostic criteria for a mental health disorder. So, is the mental health of our children gradually getting worse?
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Beat the Back to School Blues with Psychotherapist Noel McDermott
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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Broken Christmas
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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Growing Minds Together
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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The Challenges Parents Face when their Child Starts Nursery
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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