The twinkling lights are up, the smell of mulled wine is in the air, and suddenly your calendar is looking as stuffed as a Christmas turkey. If you’re someone who finds it hard to say “no,” –and that’s a very common thing – the season can quickly become a source of overwhelming stress, guilt, and…
Grief touches every family at some time, but when children are involved, it can feel even more complex. As a parent or carer, you may be struggling with your own heartache while also trying to help your child make sense of what has happened. It’s a tender balancing act: supporting your child’s emotional world, and…
The end of the summer holidays often carries a cocktail of emotions for parents and children alike, because it means some big changes. Your little one may be about to don their first school uniform; your tween is could be heading into the big world of secondary school; or your teen is packing their bags…
Results Day: two little words that pack a huge emotional punch for students and parents alike. Those days spent anticipating A Level or GCSE outcomes, learning them, and then dealing with the implications can be a rollercoaster of nerves, hope, anticipation, exhilaration and sometimes, disappointment. This is when that mythical parenting manual would be useful…how…
As the school holidays approach (or may already be underway), many parents and caregivers begin to feel the pressure of trying to manage everything. Juggling work, family life, household responsibilities and the need for rest can create a unique kind of stress that’s easy to dismiss and brush off as expected, but very real in…
Everyday life for an allergy parent is as stressful as leading the way through a minefield. Meals, playdates, school trips, parties: every one of those childhood staples that other families sail through, with nothing to fear, are a different matter altogether for allergy families. They come with an undercurrent of stress, or fear, or exhaustion,…
When we are faced with something new or unfamiliar our threat or fight/flight response kicks in. We have evolved to respond in this way, it’s a survival strategy, if we aren’t sure what awaits us, nature believes it is best to expect and prepare for the worst: In the days when we might have found…
In this blog I am going to describe 5 tips for dealing with exam stress and a 6th tip if you are a parent reading this trying to help your child. The first thing to remember is that a certain amount of anxiety and stress in the lead up to exams is normal and necessary….
It is estimated that in the UK alone there are 80,000 children suffering from Depression, that equates to about 4% of children. In this blog I am going to go through what treatment for these children involves. Unfortunately, there is currently no good quality evidence indicating what the best treatment for children with depression is….
Low mood in children is often dismissed as a passing phase, sometimes as just part of growing up. However, the National Institute for Clinical Excellence estimates that in the UK alone 80,000 children suffer from depression, 8,000 of those are under 10. Depression is not a problem that will just go away on its…
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