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Over the next 5 weeks we’re sharing simple ways to boost wellbeing in children. We hope parents, grandparents, carers, teachers - and anyone else who cares for children and young people - will find them useful. Week 1 - Be Yourself The theme of …
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Any parent or carer for a child will go to great lengths to protect that young person from illness and injury. Finding out that your child is in the grip of addiction can come as a shock and leaves families unprepared for the consequences. Parents …
Back in October last year, we held our second Huddl Parent Talk. We heard from two brilliant speakers who talked to us about the changing teenage brain. They shared some of the latest research into this crucial time of life and helped us to …
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“My child is convinced they are fat/ugly but they are gorgeous and perfect and I keep telling them so”. This is one of the statements I hear most often from parents, as I tour the UK delivering talks on mental health, body image and self-esteem in …
If we understand the truth about the teenage brain, then we might just begin to remember the truth about our own teenage years – the worry, the angst, the self-doubt. The fact is that different, fascinating and significant things are happening and …
While the subject of “Online Safety” may seem daunting, it’s not really all that complicated or, for that matter, much different than what you learned about when you were a student. Much of what young people (and young adults too) need to know about …
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The dangers of the Internet must be known, recognised, and understood to provide parents with the knowledge, experience and patience to identify and deal with any incident of online child exploitation, inappropriate online behaviour or …
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How can parents advise kids on threading the line between sharing social media images that are innocent and those that could be deemed suggestive? It is important for parents to encourage their children to think carefully about social media images …
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