Hilarious mum’s song… Enjoy!

First, I would like to congratulate your daughter for having good friends! Many don’t, and this makes them very miserable indeed. What may seem to us like a useless waste of time is often far from it. By spending time together, children and teens learn and practise many valuable social skills – how to have a conversation, how to negotiate and compromise, how to win and lose graciously, how to share and be kind, what kind of jokes make people laugh, what behaviours get on people’s nerves, etc. Their happiness and success in the future will be directly linked to their ability get on with people – bosses, colleagues, friends…

Here is a lovely idea from a Mum whose five-year-old son didn’t want her to leave his bedroom at night… ‘My son is into technology and science, so one night when he didn’t want me to leave his bedroom I had an idea. “I’m going to recharge your battery!” I said. “You need to hug me with all your strength, however you like, for as long as you need until you are fully charged.” And so he did. He hugged me really strongly, like a little monkey, and unsurprisingly he soon got tired and went to bed. I checked whether he was fully charged, so that the charge would last…

  If you are a parent, this blog is here for you! I first thought of creating it when the parents reading the draft of my book How to Calm a Challenging Child asked me to expand on particular topics, or had questions, or made useful comments that I could not incorporate into the book, unless I made it into an encyclopaedia! Then, when I actually began to write the blog, more ideas started coming into my mind – including some anecdotes from the parents I work with (with their blessing, of course), some thoughts that you may find interesting and links that I hope it will be useful and…