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The Parent Practice PodcastThe Upsides of Enforced Slowness in Lockdown with Carl HonoréIf you’re feeling really over the whole pandemic thing this episode will lift your spirits. The Covid-19 pandemic has certainly changed our lives. We’ve been forced to accept changes to the way we live in order to try to control the disease, some of which have been inconvenient, to say the least. Some families have found the enforced lockdown extremely difficult and for some isolation has really affected their mental wellbeing. But it hasn’t been all bad. Carl Honoré has written extensively about the benefits of slowing down –he calls it embracing our ‘inne...2020-07-2438 min
The Parent Practice PodcastJuliet Richards - Navigating AnxietyWe are all aware that anxiety is a growing problem amongst our littlies, our tweens and our teens, and a recent Bristol University Longitudinal study ( ALPSAC) has identified that anxiety amongst our young people, children and teenagers has risen over the past 3 months of the pandemic from 13% to 24% during the crisis. So this podcast helps parents understand it and most importantly gives some top tips re what can be done to manage anxiety, reduce stress and how to respond to it. Our guest today is Juliet Richards, who has been part of the facilitation team here at...2020-07-1744 min
FLOURISHING EDUCATION - How do we re-MEMBER to BE, BE-come, and BE-long to FLOURISH TOGETHER?Episode 25 - How to foster our children's individuality with Elaine HalliganThis week I have another powerful and wonderful conversation. This time with the talented and amazing Elaine Halligan, London Director of The Parent Practice (links to connect with Elaine and Melissa below). Elaine is author of My Child's Different - I highly recommend it!
We talk about raising a neurodiverse child and how as parents we can best support our children and young people. How can we recognise their differences and strengths and foster their individuality so that they can flourish and be their true selves.
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The Parent Practice PodcastLouise Treherne - Helping Children Cope with the Return to SchoolSome of you will have children who have already returned to school, albeit part time, and some of you will have children who will be returning for the first time in September, so this episode has relevance for everybody whatever transition you are going through. Some children are terribly excited about going back and some are quite apprehensive. And parents may have mixed feelings too. Our guest today is Louise Treherne who is Head of Character Education at ‘Role Models’, an organisation which supports children to be resilient and creative problem solvers. Louise has a degr...2020-07-1050 min
The Parent Practice PodcastMichele Borba - Raising empathetic children in an all-about-me worldThere is no doubt that in this era of the Covid-19 pandemic there has been a huge amount of uncertainty and with that some anxiety. You may be feeling some anxiety yourself and perhaps your children are too. Well, the antidote to stress is empathy and our guest today has many, many ideas about how you can build empathy in your children. Dr. Michele Borba is an educational psychologist and former classroom teacher who is recognised globally as a parenting, bullying and character expert whose aim is to strengthen children’s empathy and resilience, and break the cy...2020-07-0343 min
The Parent Practice PodcastAlex Webb - Understanding self for future happiness and successAlex Webb is an experienced coach and facilitator, working with young people on an individual basis and in teams to become resilient leaders. Alex focuses on behaviour change, self-awareness and the understanding of self. Her belief is that if you understand yourself, you can then understand others, allowing you to adapt your behaviour to improve relationships. Her business is called Flying Start and she has been working with The Princes Trust to help young adults with leadership skills and confidence in their Future Leaders Programme. They help young people understand the future of work and how they can be...2020-06-2643 min
The Parent Practice PodcastDr Laura Markham -We need to talk about racismYou may have been provoked by the recent death of George Floyd at the hands of a white police officer in Minnesota or by similar events in the UK and Australia, and elsewhere, to think really hard about racism. Were you galvanised into taking part in a protest against racism and against police brutality? Are you wondering how to bring up your children not only to not be racist themselves but to be outraged by discrimination on the basis of skin colour and to speak out against it? If you want to raise children who are going to be...2020-06-1944 min
The Parent Practice PodcastVictoria Bagnall - Executive FunctioningDo you have a child for whom there is a disconnect between level of intelligence and academic performance? Do you have a teen who has issues with time management, who can’t get up in the morning? Maybe you’ve even got a young adult who is struggling now that the scaffolding of school has been taken away and they’re trying to manage on their own at university. Do you have a child with a diagnosis of ADD or ADHD or any other neurodiverse condition? Chances are he has executive function challenges. To function in the 21st cen...2020-06-1243 min
The Parent Practice PodcastPam Custers - The Primary Relationship is with the Parents not the ChildrenConflict is normal in a healthy relationship, and relationships have definitely been feeling the strain in lockdown as we’re in each other’s company 24/7 and the division of responsibility in the family around childcare, supervision of schoolwork and domestic duties becomes strained. Parents are used to putting the children first but our guest today believes that the primary relationship is between the adults. The couple relationship can get lost if parents become a child-rearing unit. This episode looks at how we can communicate our needs in an effective way, Pam Custers is an experienced Psyc...2020-06-0545 min
The Parent Practice PodcastElizabeth Fletcher - Parenting Apart in LockdownRight now every couple relationship is being stress-tested. Being forced into close proximity with your other half 24/7 and with other possible anxieties around work and finances and child care and education and concerns about your own and others’ health may mean that cracks are developing. If your relationship was already under strain before the arrival of this coronavirus it may have reached breaking point now. If you’re listening to this particular episode presumably you have an interest in helping children deal with the breakdown of a relationship, whether that is something that has already happened or is imminent. 2020-05-2938 min
The Parent Practice PodcastSharon Charlton-Thomson - Radical Self care for the real world we live inThose of us working in the coaching space right now know that many parents are feeling overwhelmed, stressed and depleted as our expectations of ourselves are through the roof. We’re supervising learning at home and many of us are working from home too; we’re getting the kids off electronic devices and coaxing them to take some exercise; we’re sorting out sibling squabbles and getting them to make their beds and put their clothes in the laundry basket, while also cleaning, shopping and cooking, all in closer proximity to our partners than usual. Never before has the phrase...2020-05-2242 min
The Parent Practice PodcastVerena Dickson - Growing curious, mindful eatersIf you’re a parent you will almost certainly have come across plenty of advice about feeding children, some of it from professionals and some from well-meaning family and friends. Some of that advice will probably have been conflicting and your best efforts to follow it may have left you feeling confused, frustrated and guilty. There is no more primal urge than for a parent to want to nourish their child and when that is challenging we can feel anxious and inadequate. Sometimes feelings of hopelessness can lead to us shouting at and nagging our kids with the result th...2020-05-1538 min
The Parent Practice PodcastCaroline Ferguson - How to escape the parental guilt trapAre you over the whole Coronavirus thing? We know you will be experiencing all sorts of feelings and one of them may be guilt. Your perfectionist instincts may be riding you to aspire to unrealistic expectations of perfect at home learning conditions, enriching activities for your children and perfectly baked sourdough bread while carrying out your own job in unfamiliar surroundings with less than perfect tools and resources with a partner who’s not usually under your feet. Do you feel guilty about losing your cool or nagging your kids or your other half? Do you feel guilty about ho...2020-05-0835 min
The Parent Practice PodcastSue Atkins - Happy Healthy Resilient KidsAre you anxious about how your children are going to emerge from this period of lockdown? Do you worry about gaps in their education? Are you concerned about the loss of social interaction, especially for young children just learning social skills and teenagers who are so dependent on peer interaction? Or do you see this as a period of difficulty from which your children can emerge stronger and more resilient? Resilience is that quality which enables us to weather the difficulties that life throws at us and to learn from them. But how do we encourage resilience in children?2020-05-0136 min
The Parent Practice PodcastVictoria Markou - Screentime sanityDo you feel as if you’re going insane at the moment? Being in lockdown with kids has all sorts of challenges associated with it but one of the particular difficulties is managing screens when children need them for school work and want to be on them for leisure and social contact as well. Do we have to throw out the window the previous guidelines we had about moderating screen usage? Victoria Markou is a parenting coach and a mum of two teenage boys who is facing these issues day to day and is making it work fo...2020-04-2439 min
The Parent Practice PodcastAlain Desmier and Hilary Fyles - Lock down or slow down? TPP22Are you are in that group of people hit really hard by the current pandemic-enforced lockdown - a parent stuck at home with young children, trying to continue their education or keep them occupied while working yourself? If you’re doing that on your own that brings its own stresses of course but if you’re trying to do it with your partner you may be finding some stresses in the couple relationship too. Anxiety and overwhelm have a way of highlighting fault lines. If you’re currently holed up with your partner, you may start to notice things a litt...2020-04-1743 min
The Parent Practice PodcastSam O’Neill - Home Learning in Coronavirus IsolationOne of the many changes parents have had to adapt to in this era of rapid change is having kids home from school 24/7 and having to ensure that their education continues in some form. You probably didn’t sign up for home-schooling and may be breathing a sigh of relief at the thought of the Easter holidays, even if they’ll be holidays like you’ve never had before. But even when term resumes the children will still be at home so it’s as well to get our heads around this educating at home thing. Home-schooling is a con...2020-04-1035 min
The Parent Practice PodcastElaine Halligan and Melissa Hood - How to cope when siblings are cooped up togetherDid you know that on average 3-7 year old siblings argue 3 1/2 times an hour, spending about 10 minutes every hour arguing? Given that we’ve all been cooped up together for a while now it may feel even more than that! With different ages and different temperaments all vying for parental attention, not to mention time on scarce devices it might be getting a little tense at home. It may feel like a pressure cooker in your house as the kids start fighting over who’s going to be in charge of the remote control , who gets the laptop first and...2020-04-0331 min
The Parent Practice PodcastMelissa Hood and Elaine Halligan - Helping your children ride the emotional roller coasterEvery single one of us is dealing with a really challenging situation. Even if we stay well we will be impacted. At one end of the scale we may not be able to get toilet paper and at the other end we may have to close a business and lay off loyal staff. We may have to work from home and look after children at the same time. We may have to juggle care of elderly relatives as well. We may be health workers who are exposed to a much higher degree. All of that will bring with it...2020-03-2729 min
The Parent Practice PodcastMelissa Hood and Elaine Halligan- Keep Calm and Carry OnEveryone in the world right now knows all too well that we are in the grips of an unprecedented pandemic. Covid19 has spread rapidly across the globe and hundreds of thousands have been infected, with several thousand dying. There is massive uncertainty about what this means for us, our families, our work and our communities. Change is taking place almost on an hourly basis and many of us are checking news reports on the hour. The situation may be leaving you feeling really quite anxious and overwhelmed or you might be relatively calm. I hope it’s the latter. Yo...2020-03-2037 min
The Parent Practice PodcastZoe Blaskey - Freedom from PerfectionismDo you ever feel as if everyone else is getting life right but you are failing at it? Have you had the feeling that you are not enough just as you are? Do you find yourself putting off doing things until the conditions are right or you feel more qualified or resourced? Are you afraid that someday you’ll be found out as the imposter you are? Do you suffer from parental guilt? Are you exhausted? You may be a perfectionist. This week’s episode is with Zoe Blaskey. Zoe is the founder of Motherkind, a self-empowerment platf...2020-03-1345 min
The Parent Practice PodcastHohnen and Gilmour - The Incredible Teenage BrainThis week’s episode is with Dr Bettina Hohnen and Jane Gilmour who are both clinical psychologists working with children and young people. Bettina supports children, young people and families to thrive through strengthening relationships and understanding our brains. She regularly gives talks and runs workshops for parents and teachers on mental health and neuroscience. Jane is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist at Great Ormond Street Hospital. She has been working therapeutically with young people, families, school staff and adults supporting young people for over 20 years. Bettina and Jane have recently published a book wi...2020-03-0644 min
The Parent Practice PodcastDebbie Reber - Differently wiredIf you are a parent of a child who is differently wired, whether of an intense temperament and more emotional than other kids, or is neurologically atypical, you will want to listen to this episode. If your child is in an environment where he or she gets into trouble a lot and feels as if they are a bad person or if you feel that you are failing as a parent the wisdom contained in this conversation between Elaine and Debbie Reber is just what you need. When Elaine’s book My Child’s Different came out we wondered if i...2020-02-2746 min
The Parent Practice PodcastJohn O'Sullivan - Changing the GameThis week’s episode is with John O’Sullivan, coach and trainer of coaches. John is the author of Changing the Game a book for parents to help them raise happy children who enjoy sports. He has also written Every Moment Matters –a book for sports coaches He is an internationally renowned speaker for coaches, parents and youth sports organizations, and has spoken for TEDx the link for which is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXw0XGOVQvw If you are a parent who has watched your child play sports from the sidelin...2020-02-2144 min
The Parent Practice PodcastPaul Dix - Managing classroom behaviourPaul is an ex teacher and behavioural specialist. He’s a speaker, an author and a ‘teacher wrangler’ and trouble-shooter. He has had 25 years’ experience dealing with challenging behaviour in the classroom in schools dealing with lots of different sort of problems. Paul is the founder of Pivotal Education and author of When the Adults Change Everything Changes. Paul struggled in education himself and draws on his own experience as a student and teacher to help teachers understand the child’s perspective. Listen to this episode with Paul Dix if you want to learn: Why punishment in the cla...2020-02-1441 min
The Parent Practice PodcastMandy Gurney - Getting to Sleep This week’s episode is with Mandy Gurney, sleep expert and Director of Millpond Sleep Clinic. Mandy trained initially as a general nurse, then as a midwife and health visitor. She set up Millpond in 2000 when she couldn’t find the answers she needed to her own child’s sleep issues. Millpond was the first private clinic to specialise in babies' and children's sleep problems and is the only clinic to help school-aged children. It now has a reputation as the UK's leading children's sleep clinic. Millpond is a sleep advisor to the NHS and provide...2020-02-0743 min
The Parent Practice PodcastChristina McGhee - Parenting Apart - How to Divorce without Screwing up your KidsThis week’s episode is with Christina McGhee, a Divorce coach and parenting educator, speaker, coach and author. You may know about her through the Channel 4 series How to divorce without screwing up your children. She also contributed to the documentary SPLIT, a film offering an unfiltered look at how kids really feel about divorce. Christina helped UK-based family law organisation, Resolution, create the first version of the Parenting After Parting course which The Parent Practice have just revised and presented in London with Family Lawyers in Partnership. Christina is the author of Parent...2020-01-3142 min
The Parent Practice PodcastBonnie Harris - What to do when your kids push your buttonsThis week’s episode is with Bonnie Harris. Bonnie is a parenting and child behaviour specialist. She has designed and taught parenting workshops and coached parents for more than thirty years. Bonnie is the mother of two adult children and three grandchildren. Bonnie is the author of two books: · When Your Kids Push Your Buttons and what you can do about it · Confident Parent, Remarkable Kids, 8 Principles for Raising Kids You’ll Love to Live With You may have excellent parenting skills. You might have done a lot of work on developing really effective strategies and have spent a lot of t...2020-01-2438 min
Podcasting for Business010 With Elaine Halligan From The Practice Parent PodcastIn this episode I’m talking with my student, Elaine Haligan from the Parent Practice Podcast. Alongside her business partner Melissa, Elaine runs the Parent Practice, an organisation enabling parents to bring out the best in their children. Since launching their podcast 8 weeks ago, Elaine and Melissa hit the Top 10 in Apple Podcasts for Parenting shows and continue to rank in the charts for Parenting and Kids & Family podcasts. Elaine has also created a free gift for you called 5 Minute Guide To Being a Calmer Parent. Which you can download HERE. Tune into th...2019-12-0328 min
The Parent Practice PodcastMelissa Hood and Elaine Halligan - Surviving The Festive Season -Coping with consumerism and conflictThis week’s episode is with Elaine and I, your hosts of this podcast and business partners. I first met Elaine when she was struggling to understand her son’s needs and to support him. I was the parenting coach to the Halligan family and am delighted to have witnessed Sam metamorphose from the troubled state he was in at 7 years old to a happy, confident and successful young adult. Elaine and I have enjoyed many years of working together and 10 years as co-directors of The Parent Practice. So we thought it would be nice to wrap up th...2019-11-2935 min
The Parent Practice PodcastAlicia Eaton - First aid for children’s mindsThis week’s episode is with Alicia Eaton, an Emotional Wellbeing & Behavioural Change practitioner. She is a qualified Psychotherapist and Hypnotherapist, as well as a Master Practitioner in NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming). She is licensed by the Society of NLP as an Advanced NLP Therapeutic Specialist, which makes her a leading practitioner in the field worldwide. Alicia has run a successful practice in London’s Harley Street for over 15 years combining both psychology and practical advice as she helps change children’s unwanted habits and behaviours. Alicia helps parents help their children with anxiety, fears and phobias, thumb-suc...2019-11-2244 min
The Parent Practice PodcastEllie Dix - How you can use unplugged and offline activities to bring families togetherThis week’s episode is with Ellie Dix, educationalist and board game enthusiast. Ellie has just written a book called The Board Game Family, which is all about reclaiming families from the screen. Her family had always played board games and her father had a wonderful talent to be able to make things into a game. Her childhood was full of fun and she shares some of those ideas with us in this episode. Ellie’s mum had a background in maths and was a lecturer in education who got her students to make board games. She used the game...2019-11-1542 min
The Parent Practice PodcastKelly Pietrangeli - How to make sure you are a project in your own lifeThis week’s episode is with Kelly Pietrangeli, the founder of Project Me For Busy Mums. Kelly helps you when your life feels out of balance and has tools and strategies to help you find your focus so that you can shine as your best self. Are you, like Kelly, a self-confessed recovering shoutaholic? Would you like to know how Kelly transformed the ‘hot mess’ of her family life and in the process found a new career path? Kelly is a veteran of The Parent Practice methodologies and she found so much success within her own family using...2019-11-0834 min
The Parent Practice PodcastAlison O'Mahony - How adults and children can thrive in a step-familyAre you a step-parent? Or are you raising children with someone who is not your children’s biological parent? Do you also have children together? Are you finding it challenging? Do you sometimes feel guilty for not really liking your step-children all that much, even though you desperately want to? Do you get frustrated with your other half for not disciplining their biological children? Maybe you resent the amount of your partner’s time they take up. Perhaps you’re having difficulty working out what authority you have as a non-biological parent. According to Alison O'Mahon...2019-11-0131 min
The Parent Practice PodcastOppidan Education - Mentoring MagicDo you worry about your children’s education? You probably want them to thrive and do well and we’re sure you’ll want to ensure a future for them where they will get well paid and satisfying jobs. But you may also be worried about the pressure and anxiety which seem to be so much a part of education nowadays. Do you have a child who is sitting exams or going for school interviews at the moment or will be in the near future? You may wonder how best to support them through that period and help t...2019-10-2533 min
The Parent Practice PodcastSusan Stiffelman - Parenting without power strugglesDo you sometimes find yourself arguing and negotiating, explaining or rationalising with your child? Does it sometimes seem as if your child is running the show? Or have you found yourself unintentionally saying harsh things to your children or punishing, bribing or threatening them? Would you like to be lovingly, competently in charge at home? Listen to this episode with Susan Stiffelman if you want to learn: How to make shifts away from being the controller to the guide in your family – the captain of the ship, rather than the lawyer or dictator. (See Susan demonstrate th...2019-10-1838 min
The Parent Practice PodcastCarl Honore - Slow parentingHow to thrive in a fast world by slowing down Do you feel that the world is moving too fast? Do you worry that the busyness of modern life is detracting from connection in families? Are you your child’s entertainment director or project manager, micro-managing your child’s life? Has parenting become a cross between a competitive sport and product development for you? Do you sometimes feel burnt out, overwhelmed, dissatisfied and worried about your child’s future? Listen to this episode with Carl Honoré if you want to learn: How we are enthral...2019-10-1131 min
The Parent Practice PodcastDr Laura Markham - Peaceful ParentingAre you interested in peaceful parenting? Do you want to ditch the shouting and connect with your child in a more loving way? Listen to this episode with Dr Laura Markham if you want to learn: Why relationship is everything; how anything you do to encourage your child or discipline them or get them into good habits for life will be for nought if you don’t have a positive connection with them. About what role a child’s maturing brain plays in cooperation and self-discipline How to shift a child’s agenda from what they want t...2019-10-0436 min
The Parent Practice PodcastWelcome to the Parent Practice Podcast!Join your hosts, Melissa Hood and Elaine Halliigan on The Parent Practice Podcast - the practical parenting toolkit for happy, confident children.2019-09-2604 min