Research by people such as John Bowlby [et al] suggests that we learn about relationships from birth, but that may not necessarily be the case. Is it…

It’s hard to talk about the effects of growing up with parental addiction despite much more evidence showing us the long-term impact this can have. T…

In parental counselling, quite a large number of parents tend to ask the question: 'How can I help my child with anxiety?'. Being a parent and battli…

Why do teenagers seem to lead such self-centred and disorganised lives and yet cannot seem to ask for help from caring adults? Here we shed some ligh…

In these times when being a single mum is no longer unusual or frowned upon in the same way as it once was, it can be easy to forget that not everyon…

Bullying and social aggression are issues that some of us who have kids, feel quite passionate about because they come up time and time again at scho…

It is twenty-seven years since the Medical Research Council (MRC) published its research demonstrating that supplementing the diets of women before a…

The statistics keep showing us just how unhappy young people are today. The Princes Trust Macquarie Youth Index recently published its annual survey…

Family should be supportive, caring, loving, unconditional and there when you need them. However, for some families there can be some, or none of the…

As we approach the months of revision and testing, it is easy for young people and parents to get caught up in the near hysteria that can surround GC…

What is a mother to the unborn child, to the new born baby, to the growing child? What is a mother to the grown-up man or woman? A mother is the whol…

Do you have a teenager in the final year of school? Have you noticed changes in their personality or recent behaviour? If the answer is yes, then yo…