Its’ an important decision choosing where you want your children to go to nursery and there are many factors to look out for, but the most important one is to let your intuition be your guide and to look at number of nurseries before you choose. Here are some Positive Parents tips for choosing a […]
Christmas shopping and shopping generally with toddlers is given a bad press! With a little bit of planning and some common sense there are many practical ways to take the stress, frustration and tension out of buying your father-in-law his annual socks and festive tie! Here’s my advice on Happy Families Online
“There’s a lot of sitting around eating and watching TV over the Christmas period, so family and fitness experts provide ideas on how to keep the whole family active and entertained while the telly’s switched off. Thoughts of Christmas don’t exactly conjure up images of exercising, watching what you eat and looking after the […]
I was really lovely to meet the really inspiring Cara Sayer inventor of Snooze Shade at the Baby Expo in Brighton and to see how her simple idea has led to even more practical and inspirational products for parents of young children and babies. SnoozeShade is the UK’s first blackout blind for baby prams, buggies and […]
Children who are persistently aggressive, defiant, and explosive by the time they’re in Nursery very often have tumultuous relationships with their parents from early on. A new study suggests that a cycle involving parenting styles and hostility between mothers and toddlers could be the key. The study was done by researchers at the University of Minnesota […]
Can’t face the thought of the shops with a toddler (or two) in tow? Here are my top tips how to make that trip more of a success published in Families London West Magazine
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 […]
Here is an interesting article from WalesOnline.co.uk Are toddler tantrums pushing you to the edge? Learning from parents of children with autism could help steer you through those meltdown moments What is it about supermarkets? Is your weekly shop more meltdown than melt-in-the-mouth? Surviving tantrums is a parenting rite of passage. But for parents of […]
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 […]
Sue Atkins talks to Sue Learner about parenting and discipline, in the wake of the riots that spread destruction through the streets of London and most of the major English cities. The teenagers involved in the riots clearly thought it was acceptable to loot and vandalise. Do you think bad parenting is partially to blame […]
We all know that exercise is good for us, but new guidelines from the Chief Medical Officer say that this shouldn’t be limited to trips to the gym or jogging to work. Instead we should be thinking about encouraging physical activity from a really young age – before a child is five. The new guidelines […]
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 […]
A home video of two twin babies engaged in an animated conversation in a kitchen has become an Internet phenomenon. The two-minute clip shows twin brothers Sam and Ren McEntee, aged just 17 months and barely able to stand, enjoying a lively exchange in which they laugh, raise their hands emphatically and nod their heads. […]
Taming toddlers is like trying to to tame jelly – all wobbles and no rules ! ~Sue Atkins
Building Family Strengths with Humour I love laughing ….. I love laughing with my kids, laughing with my friends, laughing with Kevin (particularly at our new hobby of Salsa dancing lessons on a Wednesday night!!) and making people laugh…… it makes me feel good. It lifts my spirit when the days are grey and the […]
A Practical Guide
A calm, practical starter guide from Sue Atkins to help you handle smartphones, social media, gaming, sleep and online pressure — without rows or panic.
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