Sibling squabbles are a normal part of family life especially when kids are around each other for days at a time but the constant bickering, badgering and sometimes physical behaviour can be hard going for parents. So, here are some tips to help decrease your sibling battles.
Don’t be afraid to keep trying new foods over and over again – I have heard that children need to try a new food 10 times before they might actually like it, so don’t be afraid to keep going! It can be unbelievably frustrating throwing away food they haven’t eaten but adding one floret of broccoli to their plate each night or adding a couple of
I’m just reading a book called ‘Troubled Blood’ by Robert Galbraith (aka J.K. Rowling). This is one of her Cormoran Strike novels, and she uses Astrology a great deal in this novel. Coincidentally, you may have seen that there has been some newspaper coverage around ‘new mothers thinking parenting is written in the stars’. I found this fascinating, as an Astrologer myself. So what’s going on...
After the first lockdown, many parents found that their usually, confident children had developed some separation anxiety once they were heading back to school and nursery and speaking with parents it seems, particularly in younger children, that this will be the case again after this lockdown.
Here are my tips to help but it is important to remember that how you react will impact...
There’s something about pregnancy that everyone expects you to glow through. But the truth—spoken softly in mothers’ groups, DMs between friends, and now more openly across social media—is that pregnancy is often a tangle of contradictions. You might feel grateful and excited, but also exhausted, self-conscious, or simply not like yourself. It’s no wonder then that for many expecting parents...
Stress is a natural response to challenges, but when it becomes overwhelming, it can negatively impact a child's mental and physical wellbeing. With increasing academic pressures, social expectations and modern-day distractions, more children are experiencing stress at a young age.
According to a 2023 survey by YoungMinds , 1 in 6 children in the UK aged between 5 and 16 years old...
