Perfectionism in Children

The Link Between Perfectionism, Behaviour and Anxiety When I do initial parenting coaching calls I quite frequently find myself nodding along when parent are listing the challenges that they are facing. I estimate that around 90% of the parents that I work with are parents of highly sensitive[…]

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Understanding Highly Sensitive Children

Understanding Highly Sensitive Children I have a phrase that I have been using with children for years to help try to reduce the shame they feel when they aren’t able to cope with their emotions in the way they see their peers being able to. The phrase is[…]

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The Naughty Step and Why it Doesn’t Work

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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Should I Be Worried About my Child’s Anxiety?

  Should you be worried about your child’s anxiety? The simple answer is that it all depends what you are going to do with your worries. Sometimes a single conversation can really bring an issue into sharp focus. This happened to me a couple of years ago when[…]

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What is NLP and How Can It Help?

NLP stands for Neuro Linguistic Programming. So what does that mean then? Basically it uses research and long-standing knowledge of processes relating to the human mind and body to develop therapeutic techniques to support people to make positive changes to their situation. The underlying assumptions centre around the[…]

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Behaviour IS Communication

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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