Unless the child is unsafe the best thing to do is to be as calm as possible with them. Night terrors can be frightening to witness but they will not harm your child. Your child won’t remember the episode in the morning and often won’t recognise you when you try to comfort them during the […]
Night terrors, also known as sleep terrors, is similar to a nightmare but results in episodes of screaming, intense fear and thrashing around while appearing to be asleep. Often your child may not recognise you if you try to comfort them. Children are not fully awake during these episodes and will have no memory of […]
The difference between a normal fear of something and a phobia is the level of anxiety involved. Children with phobias demonstrate a significantly higher level of anxiety, dread and terror when they come into contact with the object of their phobia. Phobias can create such intense feelings of fear that they can disrupt the child’s […]
Kangaroo care, the practice of encouraging close skin-to-skin contact with mum and dad, continues to produce significant results. A follow up study established that the benefit to pre-term and low weight babies can be measured even 20 years later. The study suggested long lasting social effectiveness, less absenteeism from school and reduced aggressiveness were positive […]
As a parent the thought of your child being bullied can bring up many feelings. It can leave you feeling angry, tearful or helpless and often triggers feelings/memories from your own school days that make it hard to think rather than react. What can sometimes compound things is the fact that children who are being […]
Does this sound like you?… “I didn’t really realise, at least initially, that what I was experiencing was depression or something similar. It was only as I came out of the fog, and even now looking back, that I realise how badly I was functioning as a human being let alone as a mother.” This […]
