Emotions
When a Child Loses Someone: Supporting Children Through Bereavement
A bereaved child is often the quietest griever in the room. The adults are visibly distraught and absorbed in their own loss. The child plays, asks fo...
9 min read
Emotions
Understanding and managing your child's emotional world.
Emotions
Childhood Anxiety: Signs, Types, and What Helps
Most children worry. Some children worry in a way that quietly takes pieces of their life away — the schools they refuse, the friend's house they can'...
9 min read
Emotions
Bullying in School-Age Children: Recognising It and Responding Well
Bullying produces strong feelings in parents — anger, protectiveness, and sometimes the urge to march somewhere and fix it immediately. Some of those...
6 min read
Emotions
Unkind Behaviour and Early Bullying in Young Children: What It Looks Like and What Helps
A three-year-old who tells another child they can't play is not a bully in the technical sense. They are an egocentric, socially developing person who...
5 min read
Emotions
Building a Healthy Body Image in Children
Body image concerns are not a teenage problem that turns up in adolescence. They start much earlier — often in primary school, sometimes in preschool...
5 min read
Emotions
Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviours in Children: Nail Biting, Hair Pulling and Skin Picking
Nail biting is so common we barely notice it. Hair pulling is less visible and tends to alarm parents the moment they spot a thin patch on the scalp....
6 min read
Emotions
Anxiety in Early Childhood: What Is Normal, What Is Concerning, and How to Help
Anxiety is one of the earliest emotional experiences in human life — newborns flinch at loud sounds and react to sudden movement, and recognisable fea...
4 min read
Emotions
Anger in Children: Why It Happens and How to Help Them Manage It
Anger in children makes adults uncomfortable in ways that other emotions do not. A sad child invites comfort; an angry child invites correction or aut...
6 min read
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