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Hey Mum! Calm down will you!

Hey Mum! Calm down will you!

So often our best parenting intentions are derailed by our inability to regulate our emotions. We blame our kids for their poor, thoughtless or challenging behaviour but it’s our emotions that let us down, derailing our best intentions. Here’s how you can learn to manage these emotions.Read more

Take a Meta-Moment to be your Parenting Best

Take a Meta-Moment to be your Parenting Best

Emotions often let us down just when we need to be at our parenting best. This brilliant process may well be the difference between losing your cool and collecting your thoughts and your wits when emotions run high in your family.Read more

Take a Meta-Moment

Take a Meta-Moment

Effective emotional regulation is essential for success in all areas of life, but even more so to succeed in the hurly-urly of modern parenting.Read more

Test your emotional vocabulary

Test your emotional vocabulary

How many ways can you say ‘anxious’? The bigger your emotional vocabulary the better position you are in to manage and shift your emotions.Read more