Calming a Child with ADHD

ADHD is made up of two key challenging disorders. Attention deficit and hyperactivity. Both of these disorders can exist without the other, meaning that someone can have attention deficit without being hyperactive or they can be hyperactive without attention deficit. A few years ago, I was approached by[…]

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Resolving Friendship Problems in the Classroom

As we have known for sometime, it can be a challenge to focus on our work when we have other emotional problems that we are simultaneously attempting to resolve in our minds. There is only a small number of things we can do at the same time and[…]

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Creating Motivation to Change in Teenagers

Once upon a time there was a lovely communicative child who had a great desire to please their parents and enjoyed playing with their younger siblings. One night they went to bed and when they woke up the next morning, to the parents horror, the child had turned[…]

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Overcoming School Anxiety

Typically (though not always) school anxiety occurs after a transition. That transition could be from nursery to primary school, from primary to secondary school (most common) or after a change of schools as a result of a change of circumstances (such as moving house to a new area[…]

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When You Don’t Deal With Anger…

I have to say, I do not know how technically true it is (though it makes a great deal of sense if it were true) that toddlers who do not have their tempers attended to appropriately end up having temper tantrums as teenagers, and if the still do[…]

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Adopting Older Children

Every child is made by two parents, whether they come to know and like those people or not. Within this two parent rule, implies that every child has access to a family, yet that is sadly not the case for all children. Due to a multitude of differing[…]

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Raising Children in Poverty

It’s a fact that children who grow up in poverty are less likely to do well academically – but why? It would be easy to make assumptions and perhaps claim that children in poverty have less knowledgable parents who cannot support their children with homework or who lack[…]

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Getting Well Soon

This is a tricky subject to write about, as it is an area where I have no direct experience. So this article is indented to reach all of the children who would most benefit from reading it, and perhaps too for the parents of unwell children who want[…]

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I Haven’t Got Any Friends

Imagine you could chose your family. That you could custom pick each individual member for their personal qualities and traits that you would most like to have around you in your life. Just consider that you get to have the kind of brother or sister you would have[…]

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Why Talking Therapies Are So Important For Teenagers

I love my teenage son but, boy, he can be really moody and completely non-communicative (when he feels like it!). He comes home from school and goes straight upstairs to talk to his friends on skype. At best, I get a “can I have something to eat and[…]

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