PARENTING

LITTLE DOPAMINE ADDICTS

Research shows that children’s brains on screen time look a lot like children’s brains on cocaine, and as Jo Hollingsworth finds, scientists are just starting to discover what that means.

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SKILLS FOR SUCCESS

As a parenting facilitator and coach, I spend my days delivering positive parenting courses and coaching parents 1-1. Without exception every parent I meet says they want their children to be happy and to grow into confident and competent young adults, who can lead fulfilling lives.

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SEPTEMBER ISN’T THAT FAR AWAY!

Preparation and time allow you to help your child really succeed in their next steps. For me, as a mother of three I find myself thinking about September’s new school year already.

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MARKETING IS ALL AROUND US

Marketing is all around us, but to what extent are children susceptible and manipulated by this medium? Sue Palmer feels itis has the potential to destroy childhoods, and equivilates  to a bygone practice of child exploitation.

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MIXED RACE FAMILY IN MODERN BRITAIN

Marketing is all around us, but to what extent are children susceptible and manipulated by this medium?

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HOLIDAYS MAKE YOUR CHILD SMARTER

We countdown to our summer holidays to recharge. But they can also be a beneficial time for children. Parents are focused not on work, but on play, thereby giving their children the prized gift of time. 

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CO-SLEEPING

A cursory trawl of the internet confirms that they are a few of many parents, and celebrities, including Angelia Jolie and Kourtney Kardashian, who sleep with their older children for all or part of the night- some by choice- having fully embraced ‘attachment parenting..

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ADDITIONAL SUPPORT

If a parent has tried what seems like every possible approach to parenting , they have read and googled tirelessly, and yet they are still struggling, they have every right to think that with all the information available to them things should be easier..

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5 FACTS ABOUT YOUR CHILD

Parenting is one of the hardest jobs in the world, isn’t it? All you want is for your child to get the best out of life, but it’s not always clear how to help them do this..

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SIX SCREEN SUBSTITUTES

Screens have become an unavoidable part of everyday life, so how do we make sure our children don’t spend too much time on their tablets, TV, computer, games console or phone?.

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YOU WANT YOUR CHILD TO BE THE BEST?

I found, to my horror and disgust that her head of sixth form, presumably in a misguided attempt to motivate the pupils to get better grades had told them, “If you don’t get good grades and don’t go to university, you’ll end up stacking shelves in Tesco!”.

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STOP GOING BANANAS AT BEDTIME

Instead of tucking in their children like Mary Poppins and singing them a sweet lullaby to gently send them to snoozy land, they found themselves turning into a slightly deranged squawking parrot repeatedly asking them to ‘Go to sleep now!’ .

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GET YOUR CHILDREN TO THINK FOR THEMSELVES

Children live in a world where they follow our rules. Rules are there to keep them safe but following somebody else’s rules means that we’re not encouraging children to go within and work out what is best for them..

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