Parenting Blog – Life Through Little Eyes

When a child starts stammering we don’t know whether it is a developmental stage and will stop or whether it will remain with them as they grow. 8% of children stammer and around 1% will continue to stammer into adulthood. We know quite certainly now that stammering is caused by physiological factors, such as genetics…

Accept our children just as they are. I fully see how important this is. And I have definitely thought to myself…”I accept my children as they are, wouldn’t change them for the world”. But actually the more I have read and the more I have delved deeply in to the inner workings of my subconscious…

As parents our default setting can be to ask questions…1) ”what did you have for lunch?”, 2) “who did you play with?” 3) “how do you feel about that?”. Answers are often…1) can’t remember 2) don’t know 3) fine. So we know that actually questions often provide us with less information rather than more. We…

I have this first hand in my world at the moment from my 2 year old and lots of Mammy’s seem to be mentioning it. So it made me bury my head in my respectful parenting books and pull together some stuff which will be helpful for the child. I think responding in the way…

“The only truth there is, is within ourselves…that gut reaction, that feeling…listen to it”. Why do we ignore the signs and think later…I knew it!! Often we don’t trust ourselves. We doubt ourselves and listen to others. We grow up being guided by parents and school and then get to an age…perhaps 40! And only…

There are so many times each day when I could impose my thinking on my little people. Because after all, we’re the adults and our job is to teach isn’t it? But if we look at the situation through little eyes…how can we know best?We’re old eyes! We’re experiencing the situation, whatever it may be,…

By making children feel bad doesn’t make them behave better. A lovely example of this presented itself today. I opened a whole load of Amazon packages for many birthdays coming up soon. Mr 4 asked who they were for and we talked through which presents were for which friends. Next thing..from Mr 4…”you didn’t get…

I knew my son starting school would have its challenges…full days; new activities and experiences; change of teacher. And knowing my sensitive little soul, I’ve been waiting for the outpouring of emotion. Week one came and went. Still waters remained. Despite not telling me much about his day, I got a sense that things were…

This photo was taken a few minutes after Storm Hugo-Finn, and there could have been quite a different outcome. Hugo (4) was saying to Finn (2) in the photo….”Here Finn, I have made this for you. You can play with this one while I make another for me”. Three minutes prior,was quite a different story.…

My heart has physically just felt like it had swollen. Like in a cartoon, where Popeye sees Olive Oil! I’ve just been in to see Hugo as he sleeps – his eye brows looking massive as the remnants of his “Ninja” face paint remains. He has shown me his little soul today…well actually, in truth,…

The importance of working with parents in early childhood stammering

Acceptance

Why is reducing questions more likely to encourage my child to talk?

Hitting…panic no, support yes

Silence the critical mind…for ourselves and our little people

The wonders that happen when we hold our tongue

Breathe & remember

Big Feelings – Little People

Naming the emotion vs stopping the behaviour

There’s some things they are just not going to like