Category: Book Reviews
Guest Post – Ten Tips On How To Be A Great Dad
A guest post for father’s day: Cat Williams is a relationship counsellor who qualified with the renowned UK charity, Relate, in 2007. She is also a British army wife and mother of two. ‘Stay Calm and Content’ is her newly released book. It was suggested by her clients and explains the ‘secret’ behind staying calm and […]
Can a book festival really be fun? Does it encourage kids to read?
Hoo’s Kid’s Book Fest: Meet Jonathan Meres and WIN TICKETS!
The importance of encouraging our children to be their ‘own people’
What on earth to do when increasing the discipline isn’t helping?
So I’m onto the ‘important’ chapter of ‘How to Talk So Kids Listen’, which is ‘Alternatives to punishment’. This is the chapter that got me interested, because as I said, Curly Headed Boy turning 7 has been tricky. Initially we succumbed to the fear that we hadn’t been clear enough with him and he ‘should […]
Tips on getting our kids to do what we want/need them to do
So here are are onto Chapter 2 of ‘How to Talk so kids will listen’; ‘Engaging Cooperation’. Backstory: With a 7yo Curly Headed Boy and soon to be 3yo Little Dimples, life has become a little shouty of late and we were looking for some alternative options, as being stricter wasn’t cutting it. So […]