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This headline in TES (Times Educational Supplement) grabbed my attention in a week full of headlines relating to children and their trauma. ‘Schools are set up to help children in…

I was on a flight from Serbia to Heathrow recently. Behind me in the security que was a Dad with 2 young children. A little boy of about 4, a…

This is a distressing watch so please be aware!! Thinking about how we raise children is a huge part of my life. I often convince myself that by now most people…

Are rewards and consequences still used in early years settings because there are no alternatives? Or is something else going on? When I Google searched reward charts there was such…

Will soft signs help or hinder? As part of a consultation requested by the Department for Education and Department of Health, NICE National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has…

Medicine and medical science ARE wonderful but….. Without medical knowledge and medical practice the human race would surely have died out by now, or be in a much, much worse…

Earlier this week Theresa May made a stirring speech about mental health “The prime minister said mental health had been “dangerously disregarded” as secondary to physical health and changing that…

When I was parenting my young child I did sometimes send him to his room, not often, but I did. usually when I was heading towards volcanic eruption, but also…

Why do we still hold on to a belief that time alone heals? For the past 23 years I have lost count of the number children and young people I…

We have to stop crushing children’s emotional development by using shame As I read yet another article on how CAMHS (Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services) can’t cope with the…