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.

Building Your Child's Self Esteem - Part Three

I know how tempting it can be to jump in and offer solutions when our child is struggling with...

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Building Your Child's Self Esteem - Part Two

Have you ever had the experience of trying to talk to someone and realising they aren't really...

Building Your Child's Self Esteem - Part One

How your child feels about themself is super important for a whole host of reasons. Good...

Using Affirmations To Help Your Child Achieve Their Goals

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

How Goal Setting Can Boost Your Child's Self Esteem

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

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How Shame Affects Children and Young People

If your child is experiencing anxiety, or angry meltdowns, or perfectionism or low mood, it could...

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Bullying - Part 4 - Cyberbullying: how to help your child

Welcome to the final post in this 4-part series all about bullying.

We've looked at how to spot...

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Bullying - Part 3 - How To Help If Your Child is Being Bullied

I see a lot of children and young people in my private practice who have experienced bullying and...

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Bullying - Part 2 - How Bullying Affects Children and Young People

Welcome to part two of this 4-part series of posts on the subject of bullying.

Yesterday we...

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3 Ways to Boost Your Child's Self Esteem

Do you worry that your child has low self-esteem?

In today's video I look the ways you can...

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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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