Jane Evans
Recently parents have been asking me whether anxiety in children can make them physically sick. The short answer is YES. Anxiety is a whole-body and brain experience and can…
read moreSchool can be a place to exhale and feel safe Many children have complex home lives. Parents and carers doing their best in most cases but often juggling too much…
read moreLiving with a child whose trauma is emerging takes many things. Emotional resilience and availability, the capacity to be hit, spat at, have objects thrown at you, to hear awful…
read moreTickling in the House of Commons? During a discussion in the House of Commons on the rise in the numbers of sexual assaults on children, the MP for Glasgow Central,…
read moreWhat’s going on? Highlighted across all forms of media are stories about the rising numbers of children suffering from a range of mental illness. Alongside this are stories of schools using…
read moreHave you ever caught yourself giving a child the look to stop their behaviour, only to regret it later, as: You realised it wasn’t them who did it They burst…
read moreAdoptive parents may well be screaming at the screen if they’ve just read the title of this blog For those who live with their adopted children, it may well be…
read moreDear Educators, I am writing this note to you so that you will hear my voice and not jump to conclusions about me. I am coming to your school in…
read moreAn article in the Telegraph caught my eye on Twitter this week. It reported that a shortage of childcare staff in Japan has seen them begin to use robots! Yep…
read moreI was talking with my friend and colleague Mike Armiger one fine evening last week over fish, chips and a pint! As is oft the case we were puzzling over…
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