Major life decisions need to be made without acting on heightened emotions. These decisions may well include making many changes, which for some coup…

As your children are on countdown until the end of school term and getting excited about the six weeks holiday they have ahead, how does that make yo…

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…

With the blossoms coming and going, I thought I would write about the blossoming tree, currently in full bloom in gardens. Perhaps this year, they wi…

Easter holidays are over, spring officially here - world is singing green and yellow. So why is the mood at home dense and stale like forgotten Chris…

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…

1.  Happy couples trust each other Even when happy couples disagree they trust their partner to be faithful, honest and to care and to have their be…

Mothering Sunday is always a celebration of flowers and chocolate as well as a time to be thankful for our own children and to treat or remember our…

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