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.

How Bereavement Affects Children
The loss of a parent, sibling, other close family member, special friend or even a teacher they...
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Helping Children Cope With Change: Part Four - Separation & Divorce
The separation or divorce of their parents can bring lots of changes to a child's life, most of...
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Helping Children Cope With Change: Part Three - When A loved One is Ill
Welcome to Part 3 of this mini-series on helping children cope with change.  
This one is...
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Helping Children Cope With Change: Part Two - A New Sibling
Welcome to the second blog in this mini-series on helping children cope with change; this one is...
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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...
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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...
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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...

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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...

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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...

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Protecting Children from the Negative Effects of Separation & Divorce - Part 3

Welcome to the third and final part of this 3-part mini-series of posts about separation and...

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Protecting Children from the Negative Effects of Separation & Divorce - Part 2

Welcome back to part two of this 3-part mini-series of posts about separation and divorce, and...

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Protecting Children from the Negative effects of Separation and Divorce - Part 1

When parents separate and/or divorce, it can be a deeply distressing experience for their...

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