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Playing with other children and friendships are important. As your child starts school, making friends and learning how to form successful peer relationships becomes a key issue. Friendships are important for children’s self-esteem, when your child has good friends, he feels like he belongs, that ...

Starting school is huge, and is a daunting time for both our little ones and ourselves.  Feeling a range of emotions is to be expected, such as excitement, apprehension, sadness, fear, uncertainty and anxiety.  We might even find that we experience irritability or even anger.   So why ...

Kids all over Australia are about to be jabbed! As adults with mature brains we know why this must be, but kids are really taking our word for it. We have noticed increased anxiety amongst our kids since the pandemic started, and many are very fearful of any vaccination, or of anything related to ...

It’s Dog-tober and to celebrate we want to spread the word about assistance dogs and answer a few common questions people have about them.   Did you know that assistance dogs are not just used to assist people with physical disabilities but can be used to assist adults and children with ...

This week is Queensland Mental Health Week, a week where we look closely at individual and community mental health and wellbeing.   Mental wellbeing is the unique way in which we manage our thoughts and feelings and respond to stress.  It encompasses the outlook we have on life and helps ...

The Upstairs and Downstairs of the Brain: I love Dan Siegel’s analogy of a house to explore the upper and lower parts of the brain, it is also a great way to explain it to children. THE DOWNSTAIRS BRAIN The downstairs brain, often referred to as the reptilian or primitive brain, ...

The River Of Wellbeing - What is it that we see in our children, and ourselves for that matter, that indicates that we are not in the flow of our river of wellbeing? Picture these two scenarios…     Your seven year old comes out not long after you have put them to bed ...

The River Of Wellbeing - The left and right side of our brain can be imagined as the two banks of a river, the ‘River of Wellbeing’   I have been reading a book by Dr Daniel Sigel, a neuropsychiatrist, and Dr Tina Bryson, a psychotherapist, who specialise in working with children and ...

Body Confidence - Having confidence in your body is determined by accepting and being happy with how your body looks and what it can do.  It is also about respecting it and tuning in to its needs.     The family environment is an influential space for many issues, including body ...

Body Image - Does our body shape, size and appearance define who we are as people?  Does it reflect our success? Is it a measure of our worthiness? Unfortunately, studies have shown that children as young as five say they don’t like their bodies.  By the age of 7, 1 in 4 children have engaged ...