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.

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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Is Your Child Emotionally Intelligent? Nov 04, 2022

Do you ever find yourself wishing that your child could just do something with ease, that you...

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How To Help A Child With Back To School Anxiety Aug 26, 2022
In this week's blog I am revisiting a post from this time last year, as it is very relevant now ....
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Is My Child Anxious or Just Behaving Badly? Jul 15, 2022
 
This is a question I get asked so often by parents! It can be hard to tell whether your...
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How Shame Affects Children and Young People Sep 10, 2021
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 Sep 03, 2021
Its very common for children to struggle to get back to school after the school holidays . . ....
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Separation And Divorce: What To Do When Your Child Doesn't Want To Visit Their Other Parent Aug 02, 2021
Is your child refusing to go on contact visits to see their other parent, or getting very...
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How to Calm a Child Who is Having a Meltdown May 19, 2021

Have you every tried to reason with an angry or anxious child, and then found yourself getting...

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