Why, from time to time, we need to allow our children to experience a level of discomfort  While most of us are hopefully unambivalent about the nee…

Through my work with adolescents marginalised and excluded from mainstream education, I have come to understand that certain language and behaviour a…

In the 1960s, psychologist Diana Baumarind looked at the different ways parents guide, socialise and control their children. She named three styles o…

Mammals and humans need, and are responsive to, signals of care and affection and have evolved attachment mechanisms that are sensitive and responsiv…

It is going to be that very stressful time of the year again, when thousands and thousands of young adults will take examinations to decide their fut…

We are all aware that our primary relationship with our mother is hugely influential to our development. When our early emotional needs are not fully…

Walking through an East Sussex coastal town at 8 o'clock one Saturday evening in early February, with wind and sleet beating my face, I saw a young b…

The very first relationship we had, was with our carers. This has to be so because we are born into the world vulnerable. The baby has preverbal feel…

My client looked at me when she said that. "That's what people always ask, and I never know what to answer. They always seem to expect me to say I ha…

Positive parenting is a parenting approach that notices and responds to positive behaviour in children and adolescents, instead of focusing on negati…

As a child, I had many fears and anxieties. I was afraid of my teachers, afraid of getting things wrong, afraid of the children in my class because t…

So your child is transgender. Maybe you were told via text message. It wasn’t a bad thing, because you had some time to regain breath during the bus…