Jun 14 2023

If you have used the emotions cards to identify emotions which the child wishes to feel more of then this is a follow up activity.  This next activity can get them thinking more actively about what they already do that makes them feel this way and what else[…]

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Jun 6 2023

Talking about emotions with children is vital. It helps them to be able to recognise a range of emotions, to connect with the feelings these emotions might create in their body and to increase their confidence in their capacity to put their feelings into words. I like to[…]

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Jun 2 2023

My Problem with Supernanny Supernanny has a lot to answer for. First aired in 2004, back when most of us picked what we watched from the five free terrestrial channels, around 5 million people watched Supernanny every week. When I watched it back then, in my 20’s, before[…]

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Apr 29 2023

I’ll say it again: BEHAVIOUR IS COMMUNICATION. Traditional methods of parenting focused on behaviour management (trying to get rid of behaviours the parent didn’t like). BUT if we try to respond to behaviour by focusing on changing it rather than trying to understand it, we are not going[…]

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