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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Is Your Child Emotionally Intelligent?

Do you ever find yourself wishing that your child could just do something with ease, that you...

Is Your Teen About to Go to Uni? How to Help Them (And You) Cope Emotionally

Is your teenager about to go to University? If so, congratulations! Its a major milestone...

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How To Help A Child With Back To School Anxiety

In this week's blog I am revisiting a post from this time last year, as it is very relevant now ....

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Helping Your Child Cope and Prepare When Someone They Love is Dying

I was recently contacted by a Mum who has been watching our mini-series on bereavement, and asked...

My Recommended Resources to Help Bereaved Children and Young People

In today’s video I share my recommended resources to help children and young people who...

The Impact of Bereavement On Teenagers

In this week's video - which is the third part of this mini-series on the subject of bereavement...

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The Impact of Bereavement on Young Children

In this week's video - which is the second part of this mini-series on the subject of bereavement...

How Bereavement Affects Children

The loss of a parent, sibling, other close family member, special friend or even a teacher they...

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Helping Children Cope With Change: Part Six - Going To A New School

Starting school for the first time, or going to a new school at any point in the childhood or...

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Helping Children Cope With Change: Part Five - Parents New Partner

Knowing how and when to introduce your child to a new partner - either yours or your ex-partner's...

Helping Children Cope With Change: Part Four - Separation & Divorce

The separation or divorce of their parents can bring lots of changes to a child's life, most of...

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Helping Children Cope With Change: Part Three - When A loved One is Ill

Welcome to Part 3 of this mini-series on helping children cope with change.

This one is...

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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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