If you’re looking for parenting help and advice from someone who really understands the challenges raising kids can bring, then you’re in the right place. With over 25 years experience working with children and having raised two kids of her own, Sue really knows how to make positive changes in any family.

Regularly featured on ITV’s This Morning and many other TV and radio shows, her advice is much sought after due to her positive, guilt-free attitude and effective solutions. The Sue Atkins Parenting Blog is where Sue shares some of her best advice to help you raise confident, resilient, independent kids. With new posts featured every few days you’ll always find something new, interesting and relevant to read.

Got a topic you’d like covered? Just let Sue know and your question might be answered in the next blog!

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Successful Separation – Always Putting The Children First.

I work with many parents going through separation, divorce or troubled times as I run a 6 week Coaching Programme: 1-2-1 Divorce Support for Families Going Through Family Conflict, Separation or Break Up One of the areas I help parents explore first is the very important area […]

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The Sue Atkins Wednesday Story. The Talking Cat

  Here’s my weekly story from my never ending notebook and my everlasting coloured pencil to ponder this week. The Talking Cat There was this lady, and one day she got the idea that her cat was trying to communicate with her. For weeks and months she […]

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5 top tips for using one-page profiles in divorce.

I am delighted to have been published today as part of 100 stories spreading the word about the very powerful One Page Profile process and how they can be used to transform lives from birth to the end of life. Follow the individual journeys of people who use services, families, […]

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So Sue – what exactly do you do?

I was recently asked what NLP stands for as I am Master Practitioner and Trainer. NLP is described as the study of human excellence and demonstrates how to communicate effectively and influence others. It was developed in the1970s by a group of psychologists who were studying successful […]

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Where you argue and what it says about your relationship

Today I’m delighted to have Andrew G Marshall an author and marital therapist as my guest blogger. Andrew G. Marshall is a marital therapist with almost thirty years experience. He trained with RELATE the UK’s leading couple-counselling charity, but has developed his own method which blends psycho-dynamic […]

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Babies arrive already connected.

“Babies arrive already connected to other people. That’s what a range of sciences is now telling us: that they have brains already tuned in to other people’s body rhythms and vocal tones and movements. It makes them much more communicative and sophisticated than we often realise. In […]

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Men need to use only 14,000 words to feel fully self-expressed whereas women need ……

I just read that men need to use only about 14,000 words to feel fully self-expressed at the end of the day, while women need to use about 46,000 words to feel fully self-expressed. This doesn’t surprise me – does it surprise you ? How heard […]

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Talking Tots ~ Top Tips to Get Your Baby Talking !

  It is my great pleasure to have Lisa Houghton and Tracey Park who were paediatric speech and language therapists as my guest bloggers today. They created Talking Tots which is based on the simple idea that children who can communicate clearly and confidently have a huge head start […]

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Topic of The Month. Great ways to talk to your kids… so your kids will listen!

A major part of bringing up kids is learning how to talk with and to your children. The way you talk to your child teaches them how to talk to others. Here are some simple but really effective talking tips to try out with your kids: Connect […]

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My new campaign to get families eating, talking and laughing together!

I am a real advocate of families eating together as it’s a really simple way to catch up on everyone’s day, everyone’s news , it’s a place to air your grumbles, your niggles , your worries or your celebrations. So commit to perhaps just sitting down once a week […]

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