"Our children act out what they see in us. They will respect us when they see us respect ourselves, them, and the other parent."

"One of the ways our children learn to strengthen and enhance their capacity to self-regulate their emotions is to experience a full range of emotions, including the more challenging feelings."

My child's dyspraxia diagnosis immediately made sense, as he's not well-coordinated and gets stressed when playing team sports, which he finds chaotic

"As our children approach early adolescence, we often see a return of challenging early-years behaviours —tantrums, protest, boundary-pushing, and opposition — but now with the addition of sass in attitude."

My primary school children are getting between 10 and 11 hours of sleep a night

"This is one of those situations where if nothing changes, then nothing changes. And something needs to change."

"Nightmares can happen at any age but seem to be especially common between ages eight and ten. They tend to occur in the second half of the night, and if woken, some children will struggle to get back to sleep."

Between two and a half and three years, many children can use 50 to 100 different words and follow two-step instructions, for example: “Can you pick up your shoe and bring it to me, please?'.

Parents often describe a sharp contrast between their child’s school and home behaviour

It seems the group leader decides who's 'in' and who's 'out', which can change from week to week...