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Do you ever fall into the trap of being a “shouty mum” or “bellowing dad”? Maybe it’s trying to help your kids with homework, or the pres…

Mental health is a big problem for many people. It’s estimated that 1 in 6 of us will have experienced a common mental health problem wit…

More and more parents are moving away from traditional discipline methods (i.e. physical punishments like smacking). And the “time out” i…

Discipline is sometimes seen as a dirty word – I think we all remember being disciplined as children. Perhaps we resented it at the time …

Have you got an interfering Mother in Law? Maybe it’s a friend who just can’t keep her opinions to herself? Or perhaps it’s your own mum …

GENTLE PARENTING… at best, it’s seen as weak parenting by the snowflake generation; at worst, it’s portrayed as downright lazy. Let me …

I’m going rogue! I may be a gentle parenting blogger, but there’s one aspect of gentle parenting that I just can’t get on board with – th…

Humans are complicated! You can have fifty people attend an event and end up with fifty different opinions of it, because we all digest a…

We’ve all done it – “I have had enough!” you yell, as your child flatly refuses to sit down properly at the restaurant table. “We’re goin…

I’ve been writing a lot recently about how important it is to give positive attention to our kids. Children thrive on attention and if th…

Gentle parenting gets a bad rap. I’m going to hold my hands up and admit that before I started it myself, I thought it was weak, wishy-wa…

How often do you praise your child? Is it a regular thing or something you reserve for special occasions (like exam success)? Do you do i…

Yup I fully appreciate the irony of a post about the problem with parenting advice on a blog which focusses on giving parenting advice… b…

Children, teenagers, adults – we can all be attention-seeking. Even if we shy away from direct attention, we would never want to be ignor…

Cause and effect is the idea that something happens as a consequence of something else. For example, if I drop a glass, the glass smashes…

Gentle parenting: it’s one of those marmite things – you either love it or hate it. Some people are drawn to the laid back, forgiving app…

As parents, it can feel like we spend our lives saying, “no!” Much as we hate doing it, sometimes dictator mummy has to step in and be fi…

I remember the first day Jenny came home with “spellings” – a list of 10 words to be learnt, ready for the class’s weekly spelling test….

Regular readers will know that the power of words and the importance of using positive language are common themes in this blog. But today…

I try to be the mummy who treats you with respect,

Who listens your point of view and doesn’t interject.

I try to be the mummy who w…