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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Protecting Your Child Online: Combatting Cyberbullying

Welcome to the concluding segment of our 4-part series focusing on bullying.

Throughout...

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What To Do If Your Child Is Being Bullied

In my private practice, I often encounter children and adolescents who have been...

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Understanding the Impact of Bullying on Children (and why it's important to take action)

Welcome back to the second instalment of our four-part series on bullying. Last week, we delved...

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Is Your Child Being Bullied? How to Spot the Signs

Bullying can inflict lasting harm on a child, affecting not only their present but potentially...

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Children and Change: Starting a New School

Starting a new school, whether it's for the first time or a subsequent change during childhood or...

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Rising Mental Health Concerns in Children and Young People: Is Digital Media To Blame?

Welcome to Part 9 of my mini-series exploring possible causes for the sharp increase of children...

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Rising Mental Health Concerns in Children and Young People: The Role of Trauma

Following on from my video last week when I was talking about the very concerning increase in the...

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Is Your Child Being Bullied?

Today is the last day of Anti-Bullying Week here in the UK. This is an annual event held...

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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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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How to Help A child With Back to School Anxiety

Its very common for children to struggle to get back to school after the school holidays . . ....

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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