Helping Girls Become Women
This week I had an article on www.pogopack.co.uk. The article was about how girls feel about themselves when they are going though puberty and the impact it can have on their self-esteem and sense of identity. Puberty can be a really difficult time for most girls as they try and understand and ...

Table Manners
For about three or four years now we have had rules for mealtimes at the dinner table. The number of rules drawn up was very long since I had asked the children what they thought the rules should be. With over twenty rules we managed to weedle out the 'you have to eat all ...

Surviving The Summer Holidays
I have been tagged to write a holiday manifesto by @mumstheboss as to how I will be surviving the school holidays but in true Kids Coach style I have chosen a slightly different approach. The summer holidays are a difficult time for many children and parents so to help ...

Teaching Children About Personal Space
Personal space is one of those tricky things that you need to teach your children and it is not that easy for them to grasp the concept. I have seen children that literally stand on top of another child and talk to them or they touch the other child too ...

The Effect On Children When Mum Goes Back To Work
My children have always known me to go out to work – even though I work mainly from home. For them I am mum and that’s what I do when they are not with me during the day and in the evenings when they are asleep. I talk to them ...


"I thought about how I treat my friends and realised I need to be nicer to them."
Luke, 7 years old
"I learnt how to solve my own problems and found it very useful ."
Abi, 9 years old
"I feel strong and ready to start my new school."
Ella, 11 years old
"I now know there are lots of ways to approach a problem and and will use these ways straight away."
Holly, 11 years old

