by Kaleisha | Feb 13, 2023 | Helping Kids Get Along With Others, Helping Kids with Frustration and Tricky Behaviour, Helping Kids with Worry, Anxiety and Stress, Parents and Carers
Many children with mental, emotional, or social health challenges are engaged in some kind of therapeutic program – this might be a course of one-to-one therapy, a group program, online learning programs, or even self-help books or workbooks. There are thousands of...
by Kaleisha | Apr 13, 2021 | Helping Kids Get Along With Others, Parents and Carers
Have you looked directly into someone’s eyes today when you spoke with them? Did it help you understand them? Or connect with them? Or did it make you feel uncomfortable? And (perhaps more interestingly) was this eye contact something you thought about, or lack of...
by Monique | Feb 10, 2020 | Helping Kids Get Along With Others, Parents and Carers
Siblings all over Australia spent the weekend playing happily together, then fighting, then playing again. Some research shows that younger siblings fight on average every 17 minutes. How did your kids go? It’s challenging to help kids play well with their...
by Monique | Jul 25, 2018 | Helping Kids Get Along With Others, Parents and Carers
One of the important questions I ask the children and teens I work with is this: “would you please tell me about your friends?”. This question sometimes surprises them (and their parents). When they made an appointment to see a psychologist they were expecting...
by Kirrilie | Jan 17, 2018 | Helping Kids Get Along With Others
One of the great joys of parenting is watching children play happily together. There’s nothing quite like the magic of seeing children laugh and have fun together, or watching children use their imagination, come up with a creative game and act it out. Of course, in...
