Google Hangouts Archives

How can you help your toddler with their speech development, and encourage them to be talking and chatting? We have some great ideas for you.

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 …

Teaching our kids about road safety is something we should be doing from an early age. The sooner the better. Here is some advice on how to help our kids stay safe on the roads.

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 …

Fussy eating - arrrggghhhhh. We have some tips on toddler food fads, just to help you see them through so they don't drive you totally insane!

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 …

In our latet Google Hangout, we look at the practical process to make the divorce easier for your children.

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 …

Parental separation can be a difficult time and this week we are discussing ways of approaching the subject with your children

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 …

We have some ideas for using those fantastic distraction techniques with kids to avoid those terrible twos tantrums and beyond...sometimes its too late to stop a tantrum with your child, but at other times, distraction is a great way to hold it off before it begins.

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 …

#Fridayat11 – The one where we do the Honkbot for the Teamhonk Danceathon…..

It wasn’t easy, but we made it in the end’ Maris’ World’s pooter died, we got some stuff wrong, and so we moved the party to a different house, but we …

We are back with more Friday at 11 sehanigancs - this time we are chatting Red Nose Day, TeamHonk Danceathon and the HonkBot!

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. …