by Jonny Matthew | Jul 6, 2023 | Child Devmt, Parenting, Practice
It’s natural to assume that children of a certain age – say 8 or older – can tell the time. Most can. But what about the passage of time? Not the same thing Telling the time and understanding the passage of time are very different things. Most...
by Jonny Matthew | Jun 4, 2023 | Blog, Books & stuff, Parenting, Practice
This is the first of two books by Paul Dix looking at the impact of consistent adult approaches to troubled children in education settings. But I’m Not a Teacher Neither am I. But you don’t need to be a teacher, or indeed an educationalist of any hue, to...
by Jonny Matthew | Jun 1, 2020 | Blog, Child Devmt, Parenting
Having negotiated our way through the onset of the virus, a shortage of loo roll and home-schooling, we now have to think about getting kids back to school after being at home for more than 2 months. This bring with it all sorts of challenges, including:...
by diviadmin | Oct 29, 2017 | Child Devmt, Parenting, Practice, Youth Justice
Not many YOTs have parenting workers these days. This is unfortunate. So I asked my friend and parenting expert Kelly Cox to summarise why parenting work has a place in youth offending teams. Here’s what she said… Why is Parenting important within Youth...
by diviadmin | Aug 29, 2017 | Child Devmt, Parenting, Practice
So many interventions with troubled kids focus on behaviour. And many of them don’t work. Why is that?… It’s because the sequencing is wrong. If a bricky tried building the walls of a house before digging the foundations, it wouldn’t stand up...
by diviadmin | Nov 21, 2015 | Misc., Parenting, Practice
To be honest, I’ve found this issue a real struggle. How do you teach kids about money? As a parent I want to get it right. Yet I find myself constantly struggling to know how best to handle it. This app really helped me… I’m nowhere near out of the...
