How to Improve Self-Regulation for Misbehaviour
Why do children misbehave? How can parents deal with misbehaviour in a positive manner? Here are some tips by our clinical psychologist—Kirsty!
Dealing with Fear in Children
Fear can be overwhelming for children, but there are steps you can take to support your child. Read this article to learn helpful tips for helping your child face and overcome their fears.
Overcoming School Refusal: A Parent’s Support Guide
School refusal is a child or teenager’s frequent refusal to attend school over a prolonged period of time for various reasons. This often becomes troubling for both the parent and child, so what can we do about it? Read on to find out!
Why Won’t My Child Behave? Understanding Behaviour
Why do children misbehave? How can parents deal with misbehaviour in a positive manner? Here are some tips by our clinical psychologist.
Keeping the Marriage Strong After Having Children
With a myriad of new stressors and changes, the transition to parenthood is challenging. Discover how you can care for yourself, your partner, and keep your marriage strong after having children.
Supporting a Child Through a Divorce
Divorce can take a huge toll on a child. Parents play an important role and hold the responsibility in ensuring that a child’s emotional and physical needs are met during this difficult period. Here are 4 ways to support a child during a divorce.
30 Statements to Help Children Cultivate a Growth Mindset
We all have beliefs about our own abilities and potential – so do kids. These beliefs form part of our mindset, which is so powerful that they affect how we interpret our life experiences, drive our behaviours and predict our success.
6 Ways to Help Children with ADHD Study Better
Encouraging children (especially those with ADHD) to study can be an uphill battle. With patience and understanding, there are ways to collaborate with your child and take the fight out of homework time. Here are some ways you can help your child focus on what they’re doing and learn better.
Talking to Children About Loss, Death and Grief
Death can be a daunting topic to broach with children. What should you say? Should you even say it? The answer: although it may be tricky, we should speak to children about grief and loss. By allowing them to understand their emotions and validating their fears, you can help build healthy coping skills that allow them to deal with grief appropriately.
How to Set Healthy Boundaries with Children
As with all physical matter, we all know that kids need limits and boundaries! But, it is another thing when it comes to setting and enforcing those limits. How do we teach children boundaries in a healthy way, such that they are able to learn and still understand that we still love them? Here are some tips!
Feeding Tips to Support Your Child at Mealtimes
Mealtimes can bring both connection and stress, especially when children refuse food, resist trying new things, or want extra help eating. This article shares gentle, practical feeding tips to support your child’s relationship with food while making family meals feel calmer, more structured, and more positive.
How to Raise Kind and Altruistic Children
Kindness and compassion are traits that parents value highly in their children. What can parents do to nurture kind children? Here are some tips that are effective in instilling kindness in children.
Balancing Screen Time with Learning and Play
Depending on how you manage and monitor your child’s screen time, there can be both benefits and risks associated with it. Read on for guidelines and tips on a healthy amount of screen time for your little one!
How to Get Your Child to Eat Vegetables: For Parents
Ah, the age-old struggle that many parents face. Picky eaters, tantrums at the dining table, we’ve heard it all. Try these simple tips to get them to enjoy their vegetables and meet their nutritional needs.
Self-Monitoring Behaviour - The What, Why and How
Self-monitoring is the capacity to observe (or measure) and evaluate one’s own behaviour. It is a crucial component of executive functioning. Read on for more information on why self-monitoring is important in children and a a step-by-step process that one can follow to implement self-monitoring behaviours in a child.
Using a Token Economy to Support Child Behaviour
A token economy is a positive reinforcement strategy to encourage and maintain appropriate performance and behaviour, be it at home or in a classroom setting. In a token economy, if a child acts or behaves in an appropriate manner, they will be able to trade their tokens for a reward or privilege.
Positive Parenting - Behaviour Management
One way to guide your child’s behaviour so that they behave appropriately is by implementing positive behaviour management — giving attention to positive behaviours (e.g. through praises) instead of punishing them for negative behaviours. Here are some steps you can take to manage your child’s behaviour in a more positive and effective way.
Coping with the Burden of Unpaid Leave and Caregiving
Welcoming a new family member comes with a myriad of changes. Despite various initiatives, like maternity and paternity leave, unforeseen situations may crop up and parents may have to take unpaid leave for caregiving purposes. How do we better cope with caregiving? How do we handle having to take unpaid leave when it’s inevitable?
Juggling Between Motherhood and Career: An ACT Approach
Babies are a bundle of joy to the family, but it can be tough to juggle motherhood and career at the same time. Worries and problems accumulate over time and become overwhelming, especially when coupled with sleep deprivation. This can snowball into burnout if not dealt with in time.Here are some tips on how you can juggle motherhood and your career!