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Mar 05

Learning to Play With Your Child

Learning to play with your children

When you become a parent, there’s an expectation that you’ll know how to do everything, but do we really know how to spend quality time with our children.

Feb 23

Healthy Bedtime Routines

Bedtime Routine

There are some measures you can take to ensure your child is obtaining the right amount of sleep, by employing a healthy bedtime routine. Some parents will no doubt struggle to obtain this routine with their adolescent children. Here are some top tips.

Feb 23

Obvious but Necessary

Play with your Child

Could adherence to basic task lists really improve a child’s welfare and development? For many parents whose children are stuck with them during the holidays, this can pose a huge challenge.

Nov 07

Obvious but necessary

Play with your Children

This August, with money scarce as the recession grinds through yet another belt tightening gear, children find themselves stuck at home for the summer. For parents this time can represent a huge challenge…

Nov 05

Keep talking to Your Teenager

Keep talking to your teenager

It’s very easy to lose touch with your teenager.
When they start secondary school, there are suddenly whole areas of their life you don’t know about. Their independence should be encouraged. It’s a good thing they are learning to make decisions by themselves, think for themselves and take responsibility for their own life. The problem is this independence comes at a price.

Nov 09

How to Break Bad News to your Children

Breaking bad news to anyone can be difficult and it can be even worse to children. Whether it is a divorce, an illness in the family or Dad losing his job, projecting the right choice of words to make the child understand is essential in a delicate situation.

Apr 30

Try not to compare your Child

I’ve come to the conclusion that the worst thing about having children is that everyone else has got them too.

You try to stop yourself but you can’t help comparing your child with everyone else’s. It starts when they’re babies: you see a six-month old sitting up unaided and think ‘why can’t my six-month old do that?’ A one year old is running around while your child hasn’t even begun to crawl.

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