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Great advice for helping out your grumpy teen!!!

Tips for Living with Grumpy Teens — Michelle Mitchell This blog is set to arm you with four ‘what-to-do’ strategies if you are living with a grumpy teenager! So, let’s get straight to it!  Grumpy Teens Tip No. 1: Try using “hit and run praise” a few times a day. Give your teen a compliment and then keep walking. Don’t stay around and w...

After 20+ years of group work, I’m now having a break from working with groups and are offering individual therapy, focussing on developing social, communication and interpersonal skills. Although group work is fabulous for social skills development, there are some great advantages of 1:1 work and it’s been wonderful to return to offering this sort of support to clients and their families. Alongside working with primary school children, I have also extended my practice to work with adolescents and adults.

My work is still very much about skill-building, demystifying some of the ‘hidden rules’ of social interaction and assisting clients to put those rules and skills into practice in their everyday lives. Skills such as conversational skills, joining in, conflict resolution and general social interactional skills can be explored. In regards to my work with adults, I have found that sessions have been particularly helpful for those overcoming social anxiety issues and interpersonal difficulties, both in the work place and in personal social lives.

Head over to Connect at York for more details. Cheers! Amanda

Connect at York Connect at York is a private practice specialising in assisting children, adolescents and adults in their development of social and interpersonal skills.

Great question to ask your kids who are navigating, what can be, a minefield of friendship decisions.

What Is The Question That Will Help Kids Find Their Tribe? Choosing good friends is one of the skills we learn growing up. This question will help your kids really think about who they want to spend their time with.

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When kids are less focused on evaluating and comparing themselves to peers, they are freer to empathize with others, embrace learning, and connect with the values that are bigger than themselves. Parents, learn how to help your children build REAL self-esteem in my new book, Kid Confidence: Help Your Child Make Friends, Build Resilience, and Develop Real Self-Esteem, available for pre-order here:
https://www.amazon.com/Kid-Confidence-Friends-Resilience-Self-Esteem/dp/1684030498/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1542302150&sr=8-2

Thank you for taking the time to check it out!

-Eileen

There’s a whole lot more to play than fabulous fun! It grows your brain in a way that formalised learning doesn’t.

Your child's social skills in kindergarten are more important than their academics Here are five to focus on building in your kiddo.

Ever come across a nice kid who is sometimes a bit mean? Or maybe, you’ve even noticed your own child doing some not so friendly stuff to other kids. Here's an interesting article that explains why they do it and how you can guide them to be kinder in their interactions. Always love Eileen's work!

Why Are Kids So Mean? Even nice kids can sometimes be nasty due to empathy blind spots.