SAY “FOR A MINUTE” INSTEAD OF “IN A MINUTE” Many times your children will ask you to read a book, play a game , build some Lego or bake a cake and you may say, “In a minute.” This usually means that you put it off and may even totally forget about your child’s request and […]
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I was invited to write for Inspire Me Today awhile back about my wish for humanity. Today on Twitter I discovered Your Wish For The World on Facebook – come along and join in – “Alone we can do so little – together we can do so much” as Helen Keller once said. http://www.facebook.com/YourWishfortheWorld?sk=wall […]
I was just coming back from walking the dogs in the fields when I turned on Steve Wright in the afternoon and they were talking about a new report about unhealthy lunchboxes and semolina ! It made me smile and brought back memories of being on Lunch Duty as a teacher – I really could […]
I highly recommend the wonderful Talking Tots as they offer fun interactive pre-school sessions that develop speech and language skills which are SO crucial to a young child’s development. Here is my interview with them: “Talking Tots spoke to the marvellous Sue Atkins, parenting coach and author of Raising Happy Children, to see what advice […]
Here’s some of my media coverage this week. As divorce becomes more and more frequent we ask just how much of an effect it can have on our children. Some research last week claimed that whilst children of divorced parents are more likely to become binge drinkers as adults, it’s not the actual divorce, but […]
I usually save this questionnaire for my personal 1-2-1 clients and it’ll only stay up for a couple of days, so grab this opportunity and a pen and take advantage of my unique pat on the back ! Pass it on to your friends before it returns to my exclusive coaching programmes 🙂 What I do really well. […]
Making up your own mind and being happy with it Here is your Wednesday story from my never ending notebook and everlasting coloured pencil. “On a certain day in 1456 a farmer entered the great city of Norwich with his son and a donkey. The man was riding the donkey, and his son was leading […]
As you know I am currently writing a new book in a series called Parenting Made Easy for Random House and I have been editing my latest manuscript that has just come back as I have to bring it down from 173,000 words to just 60,000 ! I have been re – writing the section on […]
I am speaking on LBC Radio tomorrow at 9.10 am on obesity in children in the UK. We are discussing this article and report in The Daily Mail Obesity rates in Britain are soaring with nearly a quarter of adults now classed as clinically obese. Despite Government warnings that we are turning into a nation […]
“Setbacks and stressors are bridges to be crossed to our goals… not barricades to keep us from them.” ~ Stephen Pierce Speaker and Author
Listen in as I’m interviewed by the very lovely Dr Rosina McAlpine from the “Win Win Parenting” website all about how having a positive mindset can make such a difference to your parenting. We discuss practical tips for giving children self esteem, to ways to help children reach their true potential, and feel good about […]
Today I am delighted to have Steve Miller the weight loss expert and presenter of Sky’s “Fat Families” as my guest blogger. Hypnotherapy helping mums lose weight Weight loss expert and presenter of Sky Livings Fat Families, Steve Miller is advocating hypnotherapy to help mums lose the excess weight after giving birth. As a Certified Clinical […]
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Many grandparents think their grandchildren are being raised incorrectly. In the study I read recently, published by the Mature Times, two-thirds of grandparents said they felt modern children are ill-disciplined, disrespectful and bad mannered, with a quarter blaming the parents for treating their children too leniently Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2032858/Granny-knows-best-dont-argue-bed-tea.html#ixzz1Wq8hHAnl What do YOU think?
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