“First, we have about 30 minutes of saying ‘No! I don’t want to go to bed’. Then I normally have to part drag him up the stairs to brush his teeth. We have a story together – one book is never enough – sometimes we will have up[…]

I recently met a child who was behind in his academic learning somewhat. She would become frustrated in school, often with the other children and had been aggressive more than once towards her peers. As a result of this, the SENCO at school had suggested that perhaps the[…]

Two years ago, I worked in a primary school as their resident NLP4Kids practitioner. One of the requests that the school had made to me was to help the pupils, over the course of the term that I worked with them, to build up their levels of resilience.[…]

A new area of work that some of the NLP4Kids practitioners have embarked upon this year is supporting children in the British education system who have fled with their families from conflict zones. Aside from the obvious challenges of conditions such as PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder) which[…]

I remember reading on the back of a smoothy drink “Contents may separate, but mummy and daddy both still love you very much.” I thought it was funny and I also thought about the importance of how to explain changes in family life to children. It seems to[…]