Yearly Archives: 2020

#6 Face the challenges together It’s helpful for children to feel they are sharing this experience with you. Find ways to create a sense of ‘we’re all going through something uniquely challenging together’. This situation [...]

#5 Keep to a daily routine Does it matter if your children are doing less school work? If their bedrooms are messier than usual? It’s annoying, but give yourself permission to let things go a [...]

Your children need to hear that ‘one day this will be over and we will continue with our lives’. It will give them a sense of safety. Their losses are significant. If the key stages [...]

#3 Avoid competing with others Don’t be drawn into competition with other families who’ve suddenly learnt Japanese, are baking their own bread, and holding ‘theme nights’. These families do exist, but don’t feel inadequate if [...]

It is time to focus on number 2, and this is by far one of the most important points.. If you are home working, accept that you can’t do your job as you would normally. [...]

Exams cancelled, no prom: over the next week we will give you 6 ways to help your children cope with lockdown loss.. Everyone is affected, and we have all have experienced some kind of loss, [...]

I often used to see parents at my private therapy practice in Fairford leys and we often discussed the values of a ‘good parent’. I get the pair to brainstorm ideas about what key things [...]