Parenting Advice Blog

There’s almost always one parent who thinks of or takes care of more household and parenting matters than the other. Here’s how you can learn to share the challenges and improve your parenting relationship. Sharing parenting responsibilities involves three things -...

Children are more observant and empathic than we often give them credit for. Your anxieties are their anxieties. Care for yourself to care for them. Every parent has a part of their emotional world that they don’t want their children to see, and I am delighted that...

Taking care of ourselves isn’t selfish; it’s an important part of being a great parent. Protecting our own mental health is imperative to take good care of our children and their wellbeing Thanks for sharing what’s going on for you. The maternal mind can be complex...

There are many courses out there to help parents upskill and know how to help make being online safe for their children. However, it is essential that after you’ve learned about blocking sites/what you want your child to access, you have a conversation with them about...

You don’t need to parent the way your mother-in-law expects in order to be a great mum. Doesn’t everyone have an opinion on how someone ‘should’ parent? I remember when I had my third baby, we told very few people for all the reasons you can imagine! I needed time to...

There’s a few simple steps that you can take to increase your child’s confidence, so let’s break it down into three simple areas to support them.  But before we do that, let’s take a moment to understand what lacking in confidence really is.   I meet...

The festive period is a time when families come together, or not come together, which means that we are in relationships in a way that can be difficult.  Differences can be highlighted, old inner child wounds re-ignited and this can make Christmas feel like hard...

This is probably ( read definitely) one of my favourite parenting questions to answer. Children cannot regulate their emotions. They do not have the capacity, brain development or life experience to be able to regulate what they feel and think. However, all is not...

The ability to hold ourselves at arm’s length and reflect on who we are is everything in parenting. I often say that parenting isn’t about children; it’s about parents and how they respond, rather than react, to their children’s developing emotions. Being aware of...