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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Under Pressure: The Link Between High Expectations and Kids Mental Health Mar 24, 2023

Welcome to Part 11 of my mini-series exploring possible causes for the sharp increase in the...

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Rising Mental Health Concerns in Children and Young People: Is Digital Media To Blame? Mar 10, 2023

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: Is Their Life More Stressful Now? Feb 24, 2023

Welcome to Part 7 of my mini-series exploring possible causes for the sharp increase...

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Rising Mental Health Concerns in Children and Young People: The Role of Genetics Feb 17, 2023

Welcome to Part 6 of my mini-series exploring possible causes for the sharp increase of children...

Rising Mental Health Concerns in Children and Young People: Your Parenting Style Feb 10, 2023

Another week has flown by and we have aleady reached part 5 of my mini-series exploring...

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Rising Mental Health Concerns in Children and Young People: Magical Microbiome Feb 03, 2023

Welcome to part 4 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 Impact of Change Jan 27, 2023

In this week's video - part 3 of my mini-series exploring possible causes for the sharp increase...

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Rising Mental Health Concerns in Children and Young People: The Role of Trauma Jan 20, 2023

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

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The Worrying Rise Of Mental Health Problems In Children & Young People Jan 13, 2023

Recently released figures in the UK show the number of children requiring treatment for serious...

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The Effects Of Diet On Mental Health May 06, 2022

According to a recent study carried out in the UK, the diets of British teenagers are 'unhealthy...

The Impact of Bereavement On Teenagers Apr 01, 2022

In this week's video - which is the third part of this mini-series on the subject of bereavement...

How Bereavement Affects Children Mar 18, 2022

The loss of a parent, sibling, other close family member, special friend or even a teacher they...

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Under Pressure: The Link Between High Expectations and Kids Mental Health

Food for Thought: How Poor Diets are Linked to Increasing Rates of Mental Health Problems in Children and Teens

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

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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