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Category Archives: Preschoolers
Books for Helping Children Deal With Big Emotions
I’m often asked to recommend books to use with children to help them to understand and process emotions. Here are my top recommendations: Continue reading
Posted in Preschoolers, Tweens
Tagged best book for emotion children, books to help children with anger, books to help children with bereavement, books to help children with divorce, books to help children with emotions, books to help tween anxiety, books to help tween bereavement, books to teach children emotions, books to to help tween anger, recommended book children emotions, recommended book children feelings
Preparing Children for a House Move
Moving house is a major – stressful – life event for adults and is huge for children too. As with any big transition, you can expect a little unavoidable turmoil while your child gets used to the move, however there are plenty of things you can to do help prepare them and make the move go as smoothly as possible. Here are my ten top tips: Continue reading
What Does ‘School Readiness’ Really Look Like?
A question that seems to crop up again and again among discussion groups is “what do I need to teach my child so that they are ready for school?”, this is commonly followed by questions such as “do they need to know their ABCs?”, “do I need to teach them to read?”, “should we practice phonics?” and “should they be able to write simple sentences?” Continue reading
Posted in Education, Preschoolers
Tagged school readiness, starting school book, when to apply for a school place
How to Help Children Settle into School
Some children take the transition in their stride and settle in with very few bumps, others do better than you would ever have expected. Some children however really struggle with the transition. Continue reading
Baby & Child Sleep During Lockdown – Q&A
I thought I would run a little Q&A answering some of the most common sleep questions that have been posed to me over the last couple of weeks while the world is in lockdown, due to Covid-19. Continue reading
What To Do When You Disagree with School Discipline Policies
Many parents (particularly those who follow gentle parenting principles) struggle with the discipline policies at their child’s school, but what should you do if you find yourself in this position? Continue reading
Why You Should Change The Way You Think, To Change the Way Your Child Behaves!
I would say over 90% of the parenting dilemmas posed to me daily have one very simple answer; “you’re expecting too much of them”.
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Talking to Children About ‘Stranger Danger’
I’m often asked my opinion of talking to children about interactions with strangers and how I would best approach the topic. It may surprise you that I am really not a fan of the idea. Why? Continue reading
Posted in Preschoolers, Teens, Toddlers, Tweens
Tagged how to keep children safe, how to tell children about stranger danger, parenting expert, parenting expert stranger danger, parenting expert UK, stranger danger, talking to children about strangers, teach children about stranger danger, tricky people
Talking to Children about Death
Children often become interested in, and preoccupied with, death around the ages of three to five years and parents can really struggle with explaining it to them – the natural instinct is to down play it, so as not to scare them. I am firmly of the belief that we should expose children to death (ie they should attend funerals) and discuss it in a factual, honest way with them. In other cultures death (and birth) are a normal part of everyday life that children are not shielded from, I think we could do well to learn from these societies. Continue reading
Posted in Preschoolers, Teens, Toddlers, Tweens
Tagged death gentle parenting, explaining death gentle parenting, explaining death parenting expert, explaining death to children, how to tell children about death, talking to children about death, telling child cat has died, telling child dog has died, telling child grandparent has died, telling child somebody has died
