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Children’s Mental Health Week: Day 2 Emotion CoachingMental Health

Children’s Mental Health Week: Day 2

Why nurturing your child’s emotional intelligence is more important than IQ to succeed in life.…

adminFebruary 25, 2020

Children’s Mental Health Week: Day 1 Emotion CoachingMental Health

Children’s Mental Health Week: Day 1

What is Children's Mental Health week? Top stats on state of children's mental health in…

adminFebruary 25, 2020

Managing Winter Blues in Children BoredomEmotion Coaching

Managing Winter Blues in Children

The light is minimal.  The weather is uninviting.  We’ve had a let down from celebrations…

adminJanuary 24, 2020

Apps that Set Parents up for Success ParentsSetting up for SuccessTime Management

Apps that Set Parents up for Success

Getting more organised is a common New Year’s resolution.  When you are managing your life…

adminJanuary 17, 2020

New Year = New Parenting Approach Parents

New Year = New Parenting Approach

At the start of a new year, people across the globe will be setting new…

adminJanuary 8, 2020

Support Your Child Through Holiday Stress Holidays

Support Your Child Through Holiday Stress

  It’s December. It’s time for holidays. No matter how or if you worship, or what you…

adminDecember 13, 2019

10 things I’ve learned in my decade as a ‘private equity parent’ Work/Life Balance

10 things I’ve learned in my decade as a ‘private equity parent’

Guest post from Gabrielle Joseph: Head of Due Diligence & Client Development at Rede Partners…

adminNovember 28, 2019

Baby steps towards parenting equality Dads

Baby steps towards parenting equality

When I was growing up in a market town in Somerset, dads went to work…

adminNovember 19, 2019

Cyberbullying: How to protect your children Bullying

Cyberbullying: How to protect your children

What is cyberbullying? Bullying has always been a part of young people’s lives.  However cyberbullying…

adminNovember 13, 2019

How can children make sure they are in control of screens rather than screens being in control of them? Screens

How can children make sure they are in control of screens rather than screens being in control of them?

I love my phone and laptop and I think I probably spend more time in…

adminOctober 30, 2019

Life Satisfaction Wheel Balance

Life Satisfaction Wheel

An extremely simple yet effective, visual snapshot to plot what's going well in your life…

adminOctober 10, 2019

Boys Desperate for Emotional Vocabulary Emotion Coaching

Boys Desperate for Emotional Vocabulary

It’s World Mental Health Day.  This year’s focus is on suicide prevention.  This is such…

adminOctober 8, 2019

Setting your child up for success this new school year Setting up for Success

Setting your child up for success this new school year

It's the start of another new academic year. My father always used to tell me…

adminSeptember 26, 2019

5 Questions to Ask about ‘Special Needs’ Special Educational Needs

5 Questions to Ask about ‘Special Needs’

The first weeks of school are packed full of so many new revelations for our…

adminSeptember 26, 2019

How to choose a tutor for your child Tutoring

How to choose a tutor for your child

Since so many parents ask me how to go about finding a tutor for their…

adminSeptember 18, 2019

Screen time rules for the summer holidays Screens

Screen time rules for the summer holidays

It's not the first time I've addressed this topic or mentioned it in my blog…

adminJuly 7, 2019

Gender Bias Parenting Does Not Only Affect Girls Unconscious gender bias

Gender Bias Parenting Does Not Only Affect Girls

“Don’t be such a girl.”  “That is not how a young lady behaves.”  Comments like…

adminJuly 3, 2019

Fathers’ Day; The Good, the Bad, the Ugly Dads

Fathers’ Day; The Good, the Bad, the Ugly

Having just had Father’s Day, it’s worth reflecting on what dads really want. We know…

adminJune 16, 2019

Healthy work-life balance for teens TeenWork/Life Balance

Healthy work-life balance for teens

My thoughts published in my quarterly advice column for a community magazine. My mum says…

adminJune 7, 2019

Parents don’t overstress about exams ExamsPress

Parents don’t overstress about exams

Link to original article here I am seriously not enjoying myself. I’ve had sleepless nights…

adminJune 7, 2019