28/11/2023
Messy play, love it !
Building Bonds offers group and individual sessions for caregivers of children from pre-birth to teens. We work to facilitate secure attachments.
A caregiver is defined as the person primarily responsible for looking after a baby or child. Historically in early years this has been the mother, but can apply to the father, grandparents or other significantly present adult caring for a child. In our group sessions we play with our babies and children to help foster strong loving bonds which have been shown to enhance many aspects of a persons
28/11/2023
Messy play, love it !
14/10/2023
Some session availability at The Well on Mondays. Please contact us to book a session. For more information see
The Well Sileby Counselling & Psychotherapy The Well is a centre for learning about yourself, new ideas and your relationships. We offer counselling and other therapies and skills to help integration self and lifestyle.
Please visit our web page to see more details of the therapies offered.
Building bonds offers online sessions via zoom for individuals and families. At present we are unable to offer and face2face sessions.
It is important to value your child's abilities, all of those abilities and not try and fit them into a constructed norm.
13/04/2018
It is so important to allow children to have free play, to learn freely and unstructured.
Study: Too Many Structured Activities May Hinder Children's Executive Functioning Children who decide for themselves how to spend their time have more highly-developed executive function, according to a study.
04/03/2018
Building bonds with your children is a better way.
Risks of Harm from Spanking Confirmed by Analysis of Five Decades of Research The more children are spanked, the more likely they are to defy their parents and experience increased anti-social behavior and other difficulties, according to a new meta-analysis of 50 years of research.
21/01/2018
Narcissism in children has many causes, but it can be addressed There is hope, because empathy can be taught.
15/12/2017
Learn more about relationship building parenting with our groups http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/07/schools-behavior-discipline-collaborative-proactive-solutions-ross-greene/ #
Everything you think you know about disciplining kids is wrong Negative consequences, timeouts, and punishment just make bad behavior worse. But a new approach really works.
03/12/2017
Cuddling babies makes a difference at molecular levels it seems.
Holding infants – or not – can leave traces on their genes Children who had been more distressed as infants and had received less physical contact had a molecular profile that was underdeveloped for their age.
28/11/2017
https://www.scribd.com/article/363318500/We-Need-To-Talk-About-Kids-And-Smartphones
We Need to Talk About Kids and Smartphones NINA LANGTON THOUGHT SHE HAD NO RIGHT TO BE DEPRESSED. She had a great group of friends, lived in a prosperous neighborhood and was close with her parents. Like most 16-year-olds at her Connecticut high school, Nina spent much of her free time on her