When our children greet us with pleas of ‘play with me’, they are asking us to ‘connect with me’. This is how they reunite with us after the prolonged separation of our work day and their childcare day.

"Your daughter knows she can exhale all those difficult feelings, secure in the knowledge you will catch, contain and help her understand and manage them."

The idea of something that exists to monitor bad behaviour and report back to Santa doesn’t sit well with me

There are telltale signs a young person may be struggling with perfectionism