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.

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Nurturing Young Voices: Supporting Children Who Fear Speaking in Public

As parents, we often witness our children experiencing a wide range of emotions as they navigate...

Understanding the Plight of 'Ghost' Children: Mental Health & School Absence

In recent years, a concerning phenomenon has emerged in educational settings, where...

Boy with special educational needs struggling to do his homework

From Challenges to Triumphs: Championing the mental health of children with special educational needs - Part 2

Welcome to this week's blog post in which I continue exploring the mental health challenges faced...

Girl with special educational needs being comforted by her Mum

From Challenges to Triumphs: How parents can be champions for the mental health of their children with special educational needs.

Welcome to this week's blog post in which I start exploring the mental health challenges...

Image of front cover of an anxiety guide book, answering the top 10 questions parents of anxious children ask

Helping Your Anxious Child: Your Qs Answered - Part 6

I'm so pleased to share the final instalment of my mini-series on the top ten questions that...

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Helping Your Anxious Child: Your Qs Answered - Part 5

Welcome to this week's post, in which I'm continuing my mini-series on the top ten questions...

Helping Your Anxious Child: Your Qs Answered - Part 4

Welcome to part 4 of my mini-series in which I'm answering the top ten questions that parents of...

Anxious looking boy with his head between his knees

Helping Your Anxious Child: Your Qs Answered - Part 3

Welcome to Part 3 of my mini-series on the top ten questions that parents of anxious children...

Anxious girl sitting on a swing holding her teddy

Helping Your Anxious Child: Your Qs Answered - Part 2

Welcome to the second part of my mini-series in which I'm answering the top ten questions that...

What are the Common Signs and Symptoms of Anxiety in Children?

Welcome to the first week of my new mini series in which I will be answering the Top 10 most...

Has Your Child's Anxiety Been Caused, or Made Worse by, a Bereavement?

This week I have been contacted by a Dad who recently joined our mailing list, as he had...

Cheerful smiling group of multiracial children enjoying good mental health

How To Protect Your Child's Mental Health

We have finally made it to the end of the of my mini-series exploring possible causes for...

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Frances is an award-winning Child Therapist who is known for using an innovative and creative approach to help her young clients overcome their difficulties and transform their lives. She has spent almost 30 years working in her own successful private practice based in the UK - Brighter Futures Personal Growth - seeing adults and children, and also worked in the NHS as a Highly Specialist Child and Adolescent Therapist for a number of years within 2 CAMHS teams. As well as working with children, young people and their parents professionally, she is also a Mum and Step-Mum, and has eight grandchildren.

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