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Back to work after lockdown: how to manage your child’s anxieties

Back to work after lockdown: how to manage your child’s anxieties

by Dee Barker Creggan | May 21, 2020 | Children and Young People, Coronavirus, families, mental health, parenting, the spark, Tips, young people

In the weeks ahead, parents will begin returning to work after lockdown. For children of all ages, the easing of Coronavirus restrictions may create, or heighten, anxieties and fears. From an emotional perspective, children have come to rely on and become accustomed...
How to talk to children about Coronavirus

How to talk to children about Coronavirus

by Dee Barker Creggan | Mar 25, 2020 | Children and Young People, families, mental health, parenting, the spark, Tips, young people

As adults attempt to make sense of the Coronavirus pandemic, take a moment to think about how difficult it is for children to get their heads around this new ‘normality’. Knowing how to talk to children about coronavirus has become an urgent and significant parenting...
Understanding the teenage brain: a short introduction for parents

Understanding the teenage brain: a short introduction for parents

by Dee Barker Creggan | May 18, 2020 | Children and Young People, parenting, relationships, the spark, Tips, young people

Neuroscientists consider 25 to be the age at which the human brain becomes fully developed. Until then, they should be considered a work in progress. Which is particularly the case for the teenage brain.For generations, parents have wrestled with the conundrum that is...

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