by Monique | Feb 10, 2020 | Helping Kids with Frustration and Tricky Behaviour, Helping Kids with Worry, Anxiety and Stress, Parents and Carers
Biting nails, picking noses, chewing clothes, licking lips, sucking pony tails…there are many little “habits” that children have which drive us crazy. Usually these actions feel good for the child – they like the feeling, or it provides them...
by Kirrilie | Mar 15, 2019 | Helping Kids with Frustration and Tricky Behaviour, Parents and Carers
“I’m fine!” Do you hear this phrase a lot from your kids/teens – even when you suspect your child/teen is *not* actually “fine” at all? How about when you ask your young person: “What’s the matter?” and they say...
by Kirrilie | Sep 25, 2018 | Helping Kids with Frustration and Tricky Behaviour, Helping Kids with Worry, Anxiety and Stress, Parents and Carers
Take a moment to remember a time in the last few days in which you felt stressed, frustrated or worried. Reflect for a moment on your body in that moment. Your heart rate had sped up a little, you were breathing a little quicker, your body temperature rose slightly...
by Monique | Jun 25, 2018 | Helping Kids with Frustration and Tricky Behaviour, Helping Kids with Worry, Anxiety and Stress, Parents and Carers
12 year old Tyler* and his mum came to visit us concerned about something they called his “twitch”. To show me what they were talking about, they bought along an iphone video of Tyler playing his xbox while this twitch was happening. Basically Tyler’s “twitch”...
by Kirrilie | Oct 9, 2017 | Helping Kids with Frustration and Tricky Behaviour, Parents and Carers
UK based research group Child Wise conducted research last year showed that children are watching an average of 3 hours a day watching youtube videos. Most commonly, they are watching music videos, gaming videos, “funny” real life content, videos showing pets and...
by Kirrilie | Oct 9, 2017 | Helping Kids with Frustration and Tricky Behaviour, Parents and Carers
Last week I ran a seminar for parents at a local primary school. I had almost got to the end of the night and we were discussing rules for kids. As parents, we know that part of our job is to set, monitor and enforce rules for our children. We have to do this to...