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How to Build Your Child’s Resilience

How to Build Your Child’s Resilience

Resilient children bounce back in the face of setbacks and difficulties. While adults often assume that childhood is a carefree and happy period of life, the reality is that children experience stress too. Though they don’t have the...

Problem Solving Skills for Children

Problem Solving Skills for Children

How do I help my children make better choices? The problem solving process Does your child seem to struggle with making the right choices in the moment? Does your child experience difficulties to stop and think before he/she acts, which...

OCD: Breaking the Myths

OCD vs Anal Retentiveness Often when I hear people talk about OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder) they are usually making reference to anal retentiveness, having to order things in specific ways or being overly clean. People will say “I...

Benefits of Lego Club Therapy

Benefits of Lego Club Therapy Lego Therapy is a play-based therapy method that uses Lego bricks and other similar construction toys to help children with autism and other special needs develop social and communication skills. The therapy...

Getting Ready for High School

Managing The Transition from Primary to High School Transitioning from primary to high school is often an exciting and nerve wracking time for children and parents alike. High school is often a different social, academic and behavioural...

What is Domestic and Family Violence?

  What is Domestic and Family Violence? Domestic and Family Violence is not just violence in it’s physical form (hitting and punching). Domestic family violence can be described by the pattern of actions that an individual uses to...

What Is NOT Bullying?

Firstly What is Bullying? Bullying is defined as: “unwanted, aggressive behaviour that involves a real or perceived power imbalance. The behavior is repeated, or has the potential to be repeated, over time”. In order to be considered...

Fostering Concentration In Your Children

Improve Concentration In Your Children   “Can’t you just sit down and do your work?!” Sound familiar? It may be difficult to understand why children struggle with concentration. Think of concentration as an exercise that requires...

Christmas Planning Tips to Reduce Stress

Christmas is a special time of the year for most of us. It's especially a time for family gatherings and while it may be wonderful to get together and mark the passing of another year there can be many stresses about. Christmas is also a...