We all know babies are supposed to sleep a lot but how much sleep is enough? What effects can lack of sleep have on your child and are they dangerous or unhealthy? Does sleep impact other aspects of your child’s growth, health and development? Let’s look at just a few ways that poor sleep habits …
As both a parent and a childcare professional, I have over the years tried to align what I’m trained to do, teach and model with raising my own children. I can recall as a child, endless arguments with my parents when my sister – who was extremely messy compared to me, used to finish ‘tidying’ …
Do you find yourself in a power struggle with your toddler? Are you always having a war of words and eventually losing your temper with your child’s demands and behaviour? All parents raising toddlers will at some stage think they are raising a different species as toddlers get an ever increasing ‘bad reputation’ for losing …
I strongly believe that there is an opportunity to teach your children, what you want them to know in even the tiniest of circumstance. There are lots of easy parenting approaches that will stop your child quitting! Chances to impart life skills and knowledge pop up every day, if you have the open mind to …
You had your own friends before you met your man. So did he. How about now? Have those friendships stayed intact or are they dwindling? Have these other friendships died out completely? Romantic relationships tend to take center stage, but how much is too much? Boys will be boys, and you’re not a boy No …
HOW DOES THE WAY YOU SPEAK AND THE WORDS YOU USE IMPACT FAMILY LIFE I am regularly asked to assist with communication difficulties among families that I coach. Sometimes there is such a disconnect within the family that when I meet them, they are hardly speaking at all, or all of their communication is negative …
Summer holidays are fast approaching, and apart from all the practical considerations such as who will take time off work to look after the kids, every parent thinks about the amount of time their child will be away from school or their formal learning settings. Getting back into the swing of things by September is …
IS TECHNOLOGY THE CAUSE OF MY CHILD’S DEVELOPMENTAL DELAY is a question a lot of parents are asking in our modern world full of gadgets and devices. So many parents approach me after being told by their doctor or paediatrician that their child has a speech delay, is withdrawn socially, or is developmentally delayed. In …
HOW NLP CAN HELP YOU STOP FIGHTING WITH YOUR CHILD There are a number of useful behavioural techniques I recommend for behaviour challenges with children. I have written quite a bit about toddler tantrums and how NLP (Neuro-Linguistic-Programming) can help communication but I want to highlight here how to help you in settling the face …
NATURE NURTURE AND MULTIPOTENTIAL It’s been years since I went to college but I can still remember an exam in my early childhood education course, it’s question was specifically related to the debate about nature versus nurture and the effects on a child of the environment they were raised in versus the inherited or genetic …
