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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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...

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Helping Your Child Cope With Worries About Death and Dying

The subject of death and dying is one that many children worry about, in fact it even has a name...

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What to do when your anxious child can't get to sleep on their own

This week I have made a video all about children who find it hard to fall asleep on their...

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Are You Worried That Your Partner's Anxiety May Be Affecting Your Child?

If your partner suffers from anxiety, you may be concerned that it may be influencing your child...

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Helping Your Child Cope With Separation Anxiety

I recently received a message from a parent asking if I could address the topic...

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...

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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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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...

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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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