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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Helping Your Child Grieve for a Family Member They Never Knew

Following our recent mini-series on children and bereavement, I have received an email from a...

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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...

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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...

How To Help Your Child Cope With Big Feelings At Christmas Time

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

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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Helping Children Cope With Change: Part Two - A New Sibling

Welcome to the second blog in this mini-series on helping children cope with change; this one is...

Helping Children Cope With Change: Part One - Moving House

Lots of you have asked me to address the issue of helping your children manage change, so I have...

Childhood Anxiety - Part 1 - How To Spot The Signs

Welcome to the first part of a mini-series of posts on the subject of childhood anxiety, which is...

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Separation And Divorce: What To Do When Your Child Doesn't Want To Visit Their Other Parent

Is your child refusing to go on contact visits to see their other parent, or getting very...

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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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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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