Looking after a chronically ill child can be very physically and emotional draining as a parent. It is certainly an emotional roller-coaster filled with moments of both sadness and joy. The physical challenges for a parent can be one of the toughest you’ll endure. You can find yourself and your family isolated and alone in… Read More Self-Care: Parenting A Child With A Chronic Illness
Parenting is one of the hardest jobs on the planet. Children don’t come with a manual and we tend to revert to a parenting style we were raised with, unless we make a very conscious effort to change that. Let me say at the start, that this blog isn’t meant to be used to beat… Read More 5 Types of Parenting Style.
Becoming a parent creates an identity crisis within us. No matter how well you prepare. When the child arrives you can feel like you are drowning. It takes time to adjust to this new period of your life. It is a time when you move from being responsible for only yourself to being responsible for… Read More Self Care As A New Parent
What is traumatic grief? Childhood Traumatic Grief is a condition in which children develop significant trauma symptoms (PTSD) related to the death of a family member i.e parent or sibling or another important person i.e grandparent, another relative, friend or peer. The trauma symptoms interfere with the child’s ability to go through the stages of… Read More Helping Teens With Traumatic Grief.
It can be quite normal for children to go through an anxious phase from time to time. Examples of this would be moving home, starting in a new school or play group. For some children, however, anxiety can have a bigger impact on their lives. It can affect their behaviour, interfering with school, home and… Read More 10 Tips To Help Parent Your Anxious Child.
In my blog about feeling guilty as a parent, (back in July), I discussed that all parents will feel guilty, worried and fearful to some extent. It is normal to have some of these feelings and it is to be expected. This sense of guilt (worry and fear) is actually a sign of our strong… Read More Feeling Guilty As A Special Needs Parent.
Why Do We Feel Guilty? Remember, feeling guilty, fearful and worried as a parent is perfectly normal. Everyone who is a parent, no matter how old your children get, will relate to your guilt, worry and fear. In this day of social media, we as parents are under greater pressure more than ever before and… Read More How To Not Feel Guilty As A Parent
As I said in previous blogs in this series (start here) it’s the teen’s job now to move away from you and become independent adults. They can present with bizarre and sometimes unpredictable behaviour. Some of this will be normal (and I hate this word “normal” as there is no such thing as normal) and… Read More Parenting Teens Part 4 Behaviour: What is typical & what’s not?
Please note that the previous blogs in this series already give you some techniques that you will find useful here. I didn’t want to repeat them below but check them out (Week 1 Week 2) for more details. How To Deal With The Negative Mindset. To help you dealing with, and help teens deal with, negativity… Read More Parenting Teens Part 3 Dealing With Negativity
I talked last week about anger management in some small detail and modeling good anger management for your teen. This is hugely important if you wish your teen to be able to manage not just anger but all their emotions. Today I’ll talk about understanding how the teen’s brain is different from the adult brain.… Read More Parenting Teens Part 2 Dealing With Anger
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