‘I was smacked as a child and it didn’t do me any harm’ – is a MYTH. Read WHY!

  There is a “definitive link” between smacking children and behavioural difficulties, a new study has found. Researchers at University College London, who reviewed 20 years of research on the topic, found that physical punishment is not effective in improving children’s behaviour, and instead makes it worse. I have been on Channel 5 News, BBC Radio, LBC and interviewed a great deal this week as a new […]

Are your kids being deprived? As hugs, cuddles and touch are being edged out of our lives I ponder how to find that balance.

Hugs, cuddles, touching and connecting physically  are being edged out of our lives, with doctors, teachers and colleagues increasingly hesitant about social touching. Important campaigns like #MeToo  make us even more mindful of inappropriate physical connection but make it even harder for us to find that healthy balance. Is this hypervigilance of boundaries beginning to harm […]