Children and Teens need our help as Adults to see that they have great potential and . We, as adults are all too quick to jump into the typical role: ‘Don’t be cheeky’, ‘clean your room’, ‘you should be studying’ ‘don’t hit your brother/sister’ do this/ don’t to that… Do you ever get sick of […]
I believe as Parents we need to listen more to our children, no matter what their age. I think it helps give our children confidence and lets them know their voice is worth stopping and paying attention to.. After all if we, their Parents aren\’t going to listen then what chance do they have in
Recently my little girl started School, I was worried about her as she’s shy and a little bit clingy. I was setting up play dates with her new class mates and fretting over how I knew she’d getting upset when I left her into the class room. We can all find things to worry about,
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Date: 6th November 2015 I am turning 40 tomorrow, and I have to say I am very excited about it! I know some people dread it and want to hide away thinking ‘how could I be that old? Where did my life go? It won’t be long until I’m 50 and then 60… But I
In my experience, all Mothers know immediately what the term ‘Mothers Guilt’ means when they first hear it. I think once we become parents, particularly mothers, we start down the road of heavy duty guilt. From when your child is a new born, to starting school, dealing with an illness or playground problems – it
The start of a new year can be a good time to set ourselves a goal for the year ahead, but in reality it can be done at any time… March, June, September…. there is no hard rule. So just take a moment and ask yourself what is your ultimate goal in life? Do you have
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Diana Nyad was the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida without a shark cage. She was 64 years old and it was her 5th attempt. She swam for 55 hours and covered 103 miles. She said she stopped thinking about the surface waves and wind and sickness and started to imagine, with her
Christmas is a bizarre time when you think about it, other than the religious element, it is a time that the commercial world goes into overdrive in relation to presents, cards, trees, decorations, clothes. When you think about the amount of things that are ‘material’ in relation to Christmas, it’s everywhere. Every time you turn
My 5 and 7 year old daughters play a game occasionally where they smile or say hi to someone they don’t know (it’s usually an adult) I must add here that they do this from the safety of the car, when the window is down on a hot day and we are stuck in traffic
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Listening is a skill that we don\’t spend enough time learning and focusing on and as a result we don\’t teach our children how to listen properly either. While I was training to be a Life Coach it was the first thing that we learned. We literally had to spend time listening to another persons
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