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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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...

What Can a Football Manager Teach Us About Parenting?

I recently heard Gareth Southgate interviewed on The High Performance Podcast and was inspired to...

Helping Your Child Get The Best Out Of Therapy

Did you know that the success of your child's therapy depends on YOU just as much as on your...

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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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Bullying - Part 1 - How To Spot The Signs That Your Child is Being Bullied

Bullying can have a devastating effect on a child - not just at the time, but potentially...

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Helping your child cope when a parent is unreliable about contact

If you have an ex who is unreliable about contact, and frequently cancels at the last minute or...

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Protecting Children from the Negative Effects of Separation & Divorce - Part 3

Welcome to the third and final part of this 3-part mini-series of posts about separation and...

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Protecting Children from the Negative Effects of Separation & Divorce - Part 2

Welcome back to part two of this 3-part mini-series of posts about separation and divorce, and...

The Food Mood Connection - Part 3 - Could Your Child Be Comfort Eating To Avoid Big Feelings?

In this final part of the 3 part series on the connection between food and mood, I wanted to...

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Helping Your Child Connect With Nature

Are you worried that your child isn't spending enough time in nature? Perhaps even to the extent...

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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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