We’ve thankfully come a long way from the old days of kids should be “seen but not heard“, but have…
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Technological Parenting
Raising a Digital Generation We already established in an earlier blog that parenting is tricky business at times. With the…
Anxiety – in Gifs
As we’ve discussed in other posts, anxiety is not all bad, but sometimes how we react to it when it…
Trust in Care – Can I?
I was speaking yesterday at an Early Graduate Psychology conference and recalled an important part of my career when I…
Suicide: Having the Conversation
I spoke today at the Mental Health Summit Ireland event in Croke Park about the topic of having a conversation…
The Anxiety Switch
I give a lot of talks to parents, young people and professional groups on the topic of anxiety. In most…
Court of Self-Esteem
Most of us will be familiar about how the judicial system works. You’re accused of a crime and if there’s…
Do we always need to know the why?
Something that has been consistently coming up in my work more and more is a desire (an understandable one) to…
The Curious case of Gretta
So Gretta Thunberg has managed to annoy the hell out of Donald Trump, Jeremy Clarkson, Piers Morgan, US conservatives and…
Modern (good enough) Parenting
I’m a dad of 3 great kids, 2,6 & 8 and this may come as a surprise to some but…