Tips to encourage your toddler’s speech development
In this week’s hangout with Beckie Whitehouse, we are talking about speech and how we can help our toddlers with their speech development. First words are usually spoken at …
How to encourage road safety in your kids
With millions of cars on the road (and even more roads being built) road safety is even more important to teach your child and this week it is the focus …
How to cope with toddler food fads
In this week’s hangout with Beckie Whitehouse, we are touching on the subject of toddler food fads. This is something most parents will face with their children and can …
Google hangout – Practical ways to help kids through divorce
In this week’s Google Hangout we are discussing the emotional subject of parents getting a divorce. Together with Beckie Whitehouse of Be Confident Coaching, we look at the practical process …
Google hangout: Talking about parental separation
In this week’s Google Hangout, I am talking about parental separation with Beckie Whitehouse of Be Confident Coaching. It can be a delicate time for all parties concerned when a …
Distraction – techniques and when to use them
Welcome to another Parenting Tales from the Sofa and we are again joined by resident coach, Beckie Whitehouse, of Be Confident Coaching. This week we are talking about distraction and …
Praise: how and why we should give it to our kids
Welcome to another of our parenting Google hangouts with Beckie Whitehouse of Be Confident Coaching. Today, we are talking about praise and how and why to use it with our …
Introducing the Friday at 11 Chat Show #Fridayat11
Who fancies a cuppa with me, and a few other bloggers to chew the fat over the latest things in the news or just to have a bit of fun …
Google Hangout – wetting the bed and how to help
Welcome to another of our Google Hangouts where we talk about everyday subjects around parenting from potty training to teasing at school. Beckie Whitehouse, our resident coach, is joining me today. …
Parenting tales from the sofa – potty training failure
Welcome to another parenting tales from the sofa where today we are talking about potty training failure. Becky from Be Confident Coach takes us through her experiences and offers …
Parenting tales from the sofa – how to discipline your aggressive child
As a parent we do all we can to protect our little ones when they are growing up and try to teach them right from wrong. However, what can we …
Biting child: how to stop your child if it happens to you
In our latest Google Hangout, I am accompanied by Beckie Whitehouse of Be Confident Coaching to discuss what to do if we have a biting child in the family. …
The family doctor: helping you and your child feel comfortable on a visit
Taking your child to visit the family doctor is an inevitable part of their growing; from those very first injections at 2 months old to illnesses in the teenage …
What does Shared Parental Leave mean to ME?
If you are anything like me, sometimes politics just all seems too much. The choices seem to become even more blurred , or more extreme, and I find it hard …
Parenting snapshots: How to cope with Separation anxiety
In this week’s parenting snapshot we talk about separation anxiety. Separation anxiety is more common in younger children and toddlers, especially when they are aware you are about to leave …