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.
Welcome to the second post of this 3-part mini series on the issue of the connection between your...
There's a wealth of documented evidence now available to show the connect between diet and...
Contact with animals has been shown to significantly improve childrens' mental health - so much...
Are you concerned about the effect that Covid-19 has had on your child's mental health?
Weeks of...
Have you every tried to reason with an angry or anxious child, and then found yourself getting...
Did you know that a lack of sleep can lead to depression and anxiety amongst other things?
Being...
Do you feel it's selfish to care for yourself when a child you love is struggling with big...
Are you worried that your child isn't spending enough time in nature? Perhaps even to the extent...
Breaking bad news to a child is one of the hardest things we ever have to do as a parent.
Whether...
Sometimes our children seem to behave badly, and it can feel like they are being really...
Have you noticed that your surroundings can really affect the way you feel?
Our homes can be a...
In my almost 30 years of working therapeutically with children, there are some feelings that I...
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