by Kirrilie | Oct 9, 2017 | Helping Kids with Frustration and Tricky Behaviour, Parents and Carers
Last night I missed out on watching a House of Cards episode I’d been really looking forward to, because my husband (who watches it with me) had to work. It was the one thing which had kept me going during a long day and evening of work and I was really...
by Kirrilie | Oct 9, 2017 | Helping Kids with Frustration and Tricky Behaviour, Parents and Carers
When kids and teens act in challenging and difficult ways, as parents we often feel angry and frustrated. But we are not just angry. More often than not, we are experiencing another, harder to notice, emotion. When I am working with parents, I will sometimes ask...
by Kirrilie | Oct 9, 2017 | Helping Kids with Frustration and Tricky Behaviour, Parents and Carers
1. It’s not your fault and you are not a bad parent. Powerful evolutionary forces make us instinctively move away from people who hurt us. Kids and teens hurt us. They hurt us big time. Put that hurt together with the amount of time, energy and stuff we give...
by Kirrilie | Oct 9, 2017 | Helping Kids with Frustration and Tricky Behaviour, Parents and Carers
I don’t know about your house, but at my house my kids greet school holidays with great joy….and at least some of that is glee about the increased gaming time they know is coming their way. I’ve also spoken to a couple of families this week with...