Questions To Start Conversations ~ The Sue Atkins Family Challenge!

I am a real advocate of families sitting down and eating together as it creates a bond, a connection and makes life fun. Kids can chat about their day, their worries or just spend time with you, and you can share your life with them in a easy and natural way simply through sitting down […]

Talking To Your Kids: Questions To Start Conversations ~ Day 5

I am a real advocate of families sitting down and eating together as it creates a bond, a connection and makes life fun. Kids can chat about their day, their worries or just spend time with you, and you can share your life with them in a easy and natural way simply through sitting down […]

Talking To Your Kids: Questions To Start Conversations ~ Day 4

I am a real advocate of families sitting down and eating together as it creates a bond, a connection and makes life fun. Kids can chat about their day, their worries or just spend time with you, and you can share your life with them in a easy and natural way simply through sitting down […]

Talking To Your Kids: Questions To Start Conversations ~ Day 3

I am a real advocate of families sitting down and eating together as it creates a bond, a connection and makes life fun. Kids can chat about their day, their worries or just spend time with you, and you can share your life with them in a easy and natural way simply through sitting down […]

My interview with the wonderful Talking Tots

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 whose parents divorce ‘more likely’ to become binge drinkers

  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” […]

Are you ….. Stuck On Stupid?

My friend Karen, who teaches teenagers in a local Secondary school, is always saying that too many parents are “Stuck On Stupid ! ” She sees so many parents who insist on playing today’s game by yesterday’s rules and are inflexible as their emerging teenager transforms into a young adult. If you insist on being […]

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 when it comes to learning, making friends and […]