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I would like to share some of my learning from a great webinar I watched on School Avoidance and Autism in January 2023.  The webinar was presented by Jackie Hall from the Parental Stress Centre: https://www.parentalstresscentre.com Jackie Hall is the founder of The Parental Stress Centre and is a ...

Bedwetting, sometimes called Nocturnal Enuresis is much more common than you may think. We just don’t talk about it much, even within families. Approximately 19% of primary school-aged children wet the bed. This means that it is very likely that there is another child in the class or your ...

The calming benefits of deep breathing for children and teens We’ve all been there … angry, stressed, anxious, emotional or just having a bad moment (or day) and someone tells us to calm down and just take breathe … and in many cases it works!  Let’s look at the science of why and how we ...

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 ...