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.
Welcome back to part two of this 3-part mini-series of posts about separation and divorce, and minim...
When parents separate and/or divorce, it can be a deeply distressing experience for their children a...
In this final part of the 3 part series on the connection between food and mood, I wanted to focus o...
Welcome to the second post of this 3-part mini series on the issue of the connection between your ch...
There's a wealth of documented evidence now available to show the connect between diet and emotional...
Contact with animals has been shown to significantly improve childrens' mental health - so much so t...
Are you concerned about the effect that Covid-19 has had on your child's mental health?
Weeks of be...
Have you every tried to reason with an angry or anxious child, and then found yourself getting frust...
Did you know that a lack of sleep can lead to depression and anxiety amongst other things?
Being we...
Do you feel it's selfish to care for yourself when a child you love is struggling with big feelings?...
Are you worried that your child isn't spending enough time in nature? Perhaps even to the extent tha...
Breaking bad news to a child is one of the hardest things we ever have to do as a parent.
Whether i...
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