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The Sibling Rivalry Paradox: When Competition Leads To Stronger Bonds
What is the Sibling Rivalry Paradox? What do we mean by sibling rivalry paradox when sibling rivalry is usually about arguing and fighting and disrespect amongst your siblings? The paradox is when there is a great deal of competitiveness between siblings, instead of...
Essential Tools Every Parent Needs To Manage Sibling Rivalry
Sibling rivalry is a challenge for the majority of parents who have more than one child. Parents often believe that they are fair and do not favour a particular child. In reality, this is not always the case. It is knowing how to parent in a fair and consistent manner...
Sibling Rivalry: How We Turned Sibling Rivalry Into Sibling Love
‘How many times do I have to tell you to go and have a bath now?’ ‘What are all these clothes doing lying around the lounge?’ 'I’m sick and tired of you kids fighting and being nasty to each other, now get to your room!’ Does this sound familiar to you? What a...
Impulsivity – Common Mistakes Parents Make And How To Avoid Them
Well-known psychologist and author Oliver James states in the preface of his book ‘Not in your Genes’ that the latest evidence from the Human Genome Project is proving that psychological traits that run in families is not genetic. No human being is perfect and all our...
Impulsivity – Choice And Pre-Emptive Consequences
We need to understand that everything a child does is a choice, but the problem is, what are the consequences of these choices? One of the main ideas of the SmartChoiceParenting programme is that parents should encourage and allow their child to make choices, but they...
Impulsivity – 10 Useful Tips To Curb Your Child’s Behaviour
To curb your child’s impulsive behaviour you need to focus on the small things. Here are 10 tips which are easy to implement and have good outcomes: 1. The majority of kids today don’t have manners. Manners slow a child down. As an example, instead of taking your...
Impulsivity – 4 Myths About Impulsive Kids – Why Most People Are Misinformed
Myth 1: Some kids are born impulsive and others are not. All kids are born impulsive and from the moment they become aware of the world around them, what they want they take, or have attention if they don’t get the own way. A child is born subjective, in other words...
Impulsivity – Compassionate Parenting And How It’s Encouraging Impulsivity In The Child
What happens when a child is too dependent on the parent, or an adult to help them with many things? In all my years of assessing and dealing with families who had children that were not doing well at school, or had been diagnosed with some or other disorder, I noted...
Impulsivity – Why The Dramatic Increase?
Here are the reasons:- Many parents with impulsive kids believe that some kids are born impulsive and others aren’t. What all parents need to know is that every human child is born self-centred and impulsive? From the moment a tiny tot becomes aware of the world...
Impulsivity – The Importance Of Self-Esteem
Instilling self-esteem in a child is possibly the most difficult task confronting parents. The modern child tends to be very dependent on a parent to entertain them, being at their beck and call, do things for them which they might find difficult, play with them, sit...
Impulsivity And Dependence – The Role Of Parenting
To understand the rising trend of impulsivity in today's kids, we need to understand our role as parents. One of the 10 Commandments in the Bible is 'honour thy father and mother'. In other words, we should be the centre of the child's universe as they depend on us to...
Impulsivity – The Rising Trend Of Impulsivity And Other Worrying Tendencies In The Kids Of Today
I have observed a number of very worrying trends that are taking place amongst a large number of learners which I have found is mainly as a result of compassionate parenting. The new age of compassionate parenting where parents are encouraged to over-protect,...