Children who get too much validation for being good find it very difficult to handle the tiniest mistake without feeling they are failures. Thes...

These easy calming methods have been taken from Lauren Brukner's book, The Kids' Guide to Staying Awesome and in Control. Brukner...

Every child deals with some form of anxiety at some point in their life, whether that's monsters under the bed, to failure at school, or bei...

Dr Cowan's 8th insight is about giving children time to heal, but I think it is a tip the adults in the family could benefit from.  ...

This week we are up to Dr Stephen Cowan's 6 th tip: Good medicine asks what is the symptom trying to accomplish? Rather than simply supp...

Here is the second article on how to cope with bullying written by Dr Kathrine for Drynites Australia. They have asked me to share them wit...

Some ideas for teaching children how to understand or manage their fears realistically, test their validity, and become less reactive to anxious fe...