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.

Children and Change: Starting a New School

Starting a new school, whether it's for the first time or a subsequent change during childhood or...

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Rising Mental Health Concerns in Children and Young People: Is Digital Media To Blame?

Welcome to Part 9 of my mini-series exploring possible causes for the sharp increase of children...

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Rising Mental Health Concerns in Children and Young People: The Role of Trauma

Following on from my video last week when I was talking about the very concerning increase in the...

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Is Your Child Being Bullied?

 

Today is the last day of Anti-Bullying Week here in the UK. This is an annual event held...

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Helping Children Cope With Change: Part Six - Going To A New School
Starting school for the first time, or going to a new school at any point in the childhood or...
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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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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 . . ....
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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 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...

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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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