Creating Kids Who Can

Welcome to our blog where award-winning child therapist, Frances Weston, shares advice for parents. Its aim is to help parents help their children manage and express difficult feelings and cope with life's challenges well, so they can feel happy and confident and experience positive mental health.

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Rising Mental Health Concerns in Children and Young People: Is Lack of Support Making Things Worse?

Welcome to Part 8 of my mini-series exploring possible causes for the sharp increase of children ...

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Rising Mental Health Concerns in Children and Young People: The Role of Genetics

Welcome to Part 6 of my mini-series exploring possible causes for the sharp increase of children and...

Rising Mental Health Concerns in Children and Young People: Your Parenting Style

Another week has flown by and we have aleady reached part 5 of my mini-series exploring possible cau...

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Rising Mental Health Concerns in Children and Young People: Magical Microbiome

Welcome to part 4 of my mini-series exploring possible causes for the sharp increase of children a...

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Rising Mental Health Concerns in Children and Young People: The Impact of Change

In this week's video - part 3 of my mini-series exploring possible causes for the sharp increase of ...

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Rising Mental Health Concerns in Children and Young People: The Role of Trauma

Following on from my video last week when I was talking about the very concerning increase in the nu...

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The Worrying Rise Of Mental Health Problems In Children & Young People

Recently released figures in the UK (2023) showed the number of children requiring treatment for ser...

The Power of Teaching Your Child to Use Affirmations

Would you like to learn a simple strategy that you can teach your child to help them achieve thei...

Why Goal Setting Is Good For Your Child

Have you ever set a goal for yourself - personal or professional - and experienced the wonderful ...

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Reviewing 2024 With Your Child: How to Do It and Why It's Important

Welcome to the first blog post of 2025! I hope you and your family had a lovely Christmas and have e...

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Big Feelings At Christmas Time: Helping Your Child To Cope

While Christmas is a magical time of year for most children, it can of course be a very difficult...

3 Simple Breathing Techniques to Help Your Child Sleep Peacefully

If you’ve been following me for a while, you will know that I am always eager to provide you with...

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Rising Mental Health Concerns in Children and Young People: Is Lack of Support Making Things Worse?

Rising Mental Health Concerns in Children and Young People: The Role of Genetics

Rising Mental Health Concerns in Children and Young People: Your Parenting Style

Frances is an award-winning Child Therapist who is known for using an innovative and creative approach to help her young clients overcome their difficulties and transform their lives. She has spent almost 30 years working in her own successful private practice based in the UK - Brighter Futures Personal Growth - seeing adults and children, and also worked in the NHS as a Highly Specialist Child and Adolescent Therapist for a number of years within 2 CAMHS teams. As well as working with children, young people and their parents professionally, she is also a Mum and Step-Mum, and has eight grandchildren.

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