Let’s celebrate children everywhere – but especially YOUR wonderful kids Join me here and on Facebook and Twitter #ABC WonderfulKids to add your ABC of adjectives about your Wonderful Kids. Day 10 ~ Letter J “My kids are jolly, jumpers and jelly bellies – cheers, Alex “Of my 5 teenage staff ones likes to jog, […]
Let’s celebrate children everywhere – but especially YOUR wonderful kids Join me here and on Facebook and Twitter #ABC WonderfulKids to add your ABC of adjectives about your Wonderful Kids. Day 8 ~ Letter H “Happy, hilarious and hopeful” Alex Smith from Playgroundology Mine are hilarious, hopeful, harmonious and a hoot ! Now off you […]
Let’s celebrate children everywhere – but especially YOUR wonderful kids Join me here and on Facebook and Twitter #ABC WonderfulKids to add your ABC of adjectives about your Wonderful Kids. Day 7 ~ Letter G Now off you go AND TELL THEM to build their self esteem! Natasha Phillips from Researching Reform says “Buki’s son […]
Today I have just finished my Beat Bullying – Confidence Classes for Kids Workshop and I always feel so inspired by the children’s happy smiling faces after the day we spend together. I really love teaching them my One Point Technique, My Circle Of Confidence Technique and my Success Diary ideas and love seeing their confidence […]
While most parents want their children to succeed, sometimes they unintentionally burden their children by over evaluating everything they do. I remember a lovely 8 year old child in my class called Isabel whose Mum always over analysed and over evaluated everything Isabel did, said or achieved. Isabel was a stressed little girl striving for perfection […]
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When I was younger we used to go to Spain a great deal for our Summer holidays, and we used to enjoy sipping a sangria, or a coffee and just “people watching.” Watching people walk and move about is a lot of fun. I still watch people walk in corridors, in shopping centres and on […]
When I go into schools throughout the UK teaching my “Confidence Classes for Kids Workshop” I always teach the children to have an “Attitude of Gratitude” which helps them look at life through a positive and upbeat filter and mindset. Today on Twitter I found a lovely article on “88 Ways To Make A Stranger […]
Parenting is the most important, rewarding, frustrating, and challenging job anyone can do and yet is the one few of us ever get any preparation for. We invest in everything except learning the skills in raising happy, confident and well-balanced children. The speed, pressure and stress of modern living means we never seem to have […]
I read a great article today by Michele Ranard on the NYParenting website about why some children fall apart when faced with a negative situations, while others seem to roll with the punches. Here’s the article. “A few years back, my first-grader stepped off the school bus in tears. The words he squeaked out between sobs cut me […]
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 […]
Children with parents who divorce or separate before they are five are more likely to become binge drinkers when they reach 16 than children with parents who remain together, a major new study has found. Read the article in The Daily Telegraph. Have you heard of my “Separation – Putting Your Children First” […]
How can I increase my child’s sense of security this week ?
Lots of parents, schools and families have sent me emails about using my idea for the “Easy” button or my Parenting Made Easy app so I thought it would be fun if you send me in your videos or photos of your family having fun using your “Easy” button […]
I’ve been working in quite a few schools recently teaching my “Confidence Classes for Kids” workshop and I’ve noticed the different styles of teaching, mentoring and motivating. I was in a failing school with extremely low morale a couple of weeks ago and found myself in full “Tony Robbins” motivational style as I battled to […]
