When teenagers have sex…
I’ve just read a story about a 17 year old boy who jumped to his death from the Forth Road Bridge. He was being blackmailed about online conversations he’d had with someone he thought was a girl his own age. You can read more about this sad story here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2394520/Dunfermline-teenager-Daniel-Perry-17-kills-blackmailers-trick-Skype.html When will we begin to […]
Now look what you’ve done!!
Last week I had a question from a parent wondering  what to do about a five year old girl who ignored her mother’s requests to stop playing with a snow-globe in the home of someone they were visiting. Fearing a breakage, this Mum upped her requests to a clear (and no doubt reasonable) insistence that […]
How to handle biting
There’s no doubt about it, the article on biting on the Supernanny website is very good (you’ll also find a link to the article at the end of this one). In fact, it’s excellent in terms of explaining why biting might occur. It’s also good (but not excellent in my opinion) for suggestions on how […]
Stop pestering me!
I heard a good story recently about a Mum who used boundaries really effectively to improve a situation that involved two children, some manner of computer game and a lot of pestering. It seems that this family worked out that the children would be allowed play the games console for a couple of hours on […]
