Creating Kids Who Can

Welcome to our blog where award-winning child therapist, Frances Weston, shares advice for parents. Its aim is to help parents help their children manage and express difficult feelings and cope with life's challenges well, so they can feel happy and confident and experience positive mental health.

Childhood Anxiety - Part 1 - How To Spot The Signs
Welcome to the first part of a mini-series of posts on the subject of childhood anxiety, which is th...
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Is Your Teen About to Go to Uni? How to Help Them (And You) Cope Emotionally
Is your teenager about to go to University?  If so, congratulations! Its a major milestone in their ...
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How Shame Affects Children and Young People
If your child is experiencing anxiety, or angry meltdowns, or perfectionism or low mood, it could be...
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How to Help A child With Back to School Anxiety
Its very common for children to struggle to get back to school after the school holidays . . . getti...
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Separation And Divorce: What To Do When Your Child Doesn't Want To Visit Their Other Parent
Is your child refusing to go on contact visits to see their other parent, or getting very distressed...
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What Can a Football Manager Teach Us About Parenting?
I recently heard Gareth Southgate interviewed on The High Performance Podcast and was inspired to cr...
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Helping Your Child Get The Best Out Of Therapy
Did you know that the success of your child's therapy depends on YOU just as much as on your child a...
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Bullying - Part 4 - Cyberbullying: how to help your child

Welcome to the final post in this 4-part series all about bullying.

We've looked at how to spot the...

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Bullying - Part 3 - How To Help If Your Child is Being Bullied

I see a lot of children and young people in my private practice who have experienced bullying and I ...

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Bullying - Part 2 - How Bullying Affects Children and Young People

Welcome to part two of this 4-part series of posts on the subject of bullying.

Yesterday we looked ...

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Bullying - Part 1 - How To Spot The Signs That Your Child is Being Bullied

 

Bullying can have a devastating effect on a child - not just at the time, but potentially for the...

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Helping your child cope when a parent is unreliable about contact
If you have an ex who is unreliable about contact, and frequently cancels at the last minute or simp...
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