Blog

Welcome to my blog with over a hundred articles. These are drawn from my 30 years’ experience raising babies, toddlers, children and teenagers, and 9 years’ working as a parenting coach. For specialist parenting advice and guidance on tackling children’s difficult behaviour or how to be a better parent.

10 Secrets of Helping your Child Make and Keep Friends

Does your child struggle with friendships? Read these top tips and essential strategies to help your child attract and keep good friends.

14 tips for Helping Children with Emotional Intelligence

Emotional intelligence will determine your child’s life happiness. But what can you DO AND SAY to help your child handle their own feelings and the feelings of others?

How to teach your child problem solving

Instead of telling your child what to do when they have a problem, teach them the life-skill of finding solutions to their own issues using this process.

Is it true you should never punish a child?

Punishment doesn’t work to change your child’s behaviour long-term. However, find out how ‘natural consequences’ could be the key.

Positive discipline: How to use Time Out effectively

Children sometimes need to calm down. Find out here why the ‘naughty step’ is just another punishment, and how inviting a child to the ‘Chill out Zone’ may be the answer.

When to ignore bad behaviour (and when not to)

Your child will sometimes push you to your limits. Find out when it’s best to ignore poor behaviour, and the ‘trick’ to reinforce good behaviour.

Setting rules and boundaries

What sorts of rules should you have in your family? How should they be worded? And most importantly, how do you get your child to consistently stick to them?

The best rewards to encourage good behaviour

Here’s a great list of fun, meaningful activities to motivate your child to get over the hump of adopting a new rule or routine, that are more effective than a ‘sticker.’

Giving children positive attention and praise

Instead of criticising, find out how to give positive, descriptive praise, that helps your child feel appreciated and motivates them to want to behave well.

How can we play with our children?

Do you find it difficult to play with your child. Find out how to play, how to deal with competitive games and how to tap into your inner child and have fun.

Tips to help Teens get a good nights’ sleep

Does your teenager struggle to fall asleep? Here is a list of habits, tricks, tips and strategies to help your teenager drop off to sleep.

How can I stop my two year old waking in the night?

Struggling with your toddler’s sleep? Learn the top psychological tips to get them to sleep in their own bed, and a great strategy to stop them waking up at night.