Children’s behaviour can sometimes drive us up the wall! But I have found that If we deal with different types of behaviour in different ways, we are more likely to get the results we want in our children. As a rule of thumb, I choose to do one of two things - Ignore behaviour or Praise It.

Why?

The Healing Power of Nature by Lucy James
This morning, I finally did the thing that, for the past two years, I have been promising myself I would do: I witnessed the world awakening.
Rewind seven hours and I am standing bare footed on the wet earth, cadences of the dawn chorus and the first flow of sunrise dripping simultaneously through the trees.

I don’t think I’ve ever come back from a run and not felt better than when I headed out. A combination of being out in nature, of getting my body moving, my heart pumping, endorphins flowing. A bit of headspace and a break from the pressures of the day. I also know, as cliché as it sounds, that it’s good to talk.

Run Talk Run, as the name suggests, incorporates both.

Hello, my name is Hazel Morgan and I am in my final year of a 4 year doctorate in Counselling Psychology. As part of my training, I am required to conduct some research that will be published and will be of value to society and the academic world, so I have decided to explore the very important topic of cyberbullying.

Author: Amanda Hagan

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Now that we have dates in the diary for lockdown to ease, we should be feeling better – but what if we are not? The strangeness of this time may mean that we have not dispelled the January blues. Emotional wellbeing coach, Belinda Wells, gives 10 practical ways to banish the blues and build positivity in this period before we reach an end to social distancing.

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