Archive for Parenting
Are your children socially confident?
A happy New Year to all parents! What a start to the year with schools closed and everyone snowed in; except us – we seem to be the only place in the UK without snow. There is a little piece of the UK from Ringwood to Bournemouth that has somehow missed the weather and we [...]
“Parenting is about a relationship not a set of instructions”
“Parenting is about a relationship, not a set of instructions”. I read this statement on Twitter a few days ago and realised how much it resonated with me. A great parent is one who has a great relationship with their child. How do we know when we have a great relationship? Of course, everyone will [...]
Stress or confidence?
For those of you who have school aged children, how do you feel now that your children have gone back to school? Sad, pleased, mixed feelings about it? Well, my children have finally gone back to school and I can start to get down to business again. I love having them around, [...]
Where do babies come from?
Oh yes, that is a tricky question.
Also in that category are these questions that I have faced:
“I know how babies get out but how do they get IN?”
“When does the baby know to start growing?”
“Is making a baby really disgusting Mummy – you poor thing?!”
There was a new survey out this week about the most [...]
How To Teach Your Children The Power of Positive Thinking
These are testing times for positive thinking. We are being bombarded with negative messages about the economy by all forms of media and doom and gloom seems to surround us. Even the Met Office has played a part today by telling us that the weather forecast for August, instead of the “barbeque summer” they predicted, [...]
They Should Know Better
A daughter of a friend of mine has just gone to a new secondary school and was having her first clarinet lesson with her new teacher. This thirteen year old girl is a music scholar and very gifted on the clarinet. And yet this teacher decided to tell her that her technique isn’t very good [...]
Negative to Positive Relationship
Here’s another one from a corporate training I was running in San Francisco. Over lunch I was talking about “Flying Start” to one of the group who is a mother of two, Ann.
Ann told me this story of how she managed her daughter’s negative experience with her new Second Grade teacher. This teacher, Mrs. Johnson [...]
How to Get Your Child To Take Responsibility For Getting Out of the House in the Morning!
We have now all been back at school for about a week. When I say “we”, of course I really mean our children; somehow it feels like we are too!
I have been asked to join a discussion on Woman’s Hour tomorrow morning to talk about this very thing – how DO we remain calm in [...]
Listening (Or Not!)
One day last year, Thomas came home from school, upset because his teacher told him that he “Never listens.” She has a point, although I was not delighted about her phrasing it that way, if in fact she did.
It IS very difficult to get his attention sometimes. And when you do have his attention, it [...]
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