There can be particular challenges for parents in building healthy relationships with children born after a miscarriage or stillbirth. Parents who experience traumatic birth, post-natal depression or anxiety might also find the process more challenging. Anyone who experienced mental health problems before they got pregnant or since having children might also find it harder. WhenContinue reading “Building Healthy Relationships with Children After Pregnancy Loss”
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Outdoor Metaphors to do with kids
Metaphors are a big part of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. For children and young people, they need to be concrete and clearly linked to their lives to be accessible. For very young children, they may need to be made or acted out so they can literally experience the metaphor. We’ve been having fun with metaphorsContinue reading “Outdoor Metaphors to do with kids”
ACTively coping with connection seeking behaviours, meltdowns and separation anxiety in the “new normal”
I’ve been reflecting this week on what it’s like through a child’s eyes to come out of lockdown and into a new world of shifting rules and expectations, change and uncertainty. I’ve also been thinking about how this affects both parent and child attachment styles and what all this means for big emotions, meltdowns (bothContinue reading “ACTively coping with connection seeking behaviours, meltdowns and separation anxiety in the “new normal””
Selective Eating – A Parent Survival Guide
Most of us as parents will likely deal with some level of selective eating at some point. If you bring the subject up at a toddler group, at least someone will relate to the challenge and have some advice from experience. There are lots of opinions and ideas around on the subject from ‘just putContinue reading “Selective Eating – A Parent Survival Guide”
