Parent Gossip

In the news today, are calls from the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) for a new approach to children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).  They argue that with proper training and lessons for parents and teachers on coping with the unruly behaviour that goes along with ADHD would be more effective [...]

It’s Autumn already and the football is on the telly all the time and the Witchlings are back at school.  They are both obsessing about hockey and netball trials and set off to school with bags bulging with towels and tracksuits and netball skirts and football socks in preparation to do battle on the playing [...]

More and more children are suffering from ADHD and other behavioural problems and the number of children taking Ritalin is also on the rise. There may be many factors causing this. Too much screen time and not enough exercise, divorce, working parents, SATs and exam pressures… the list goes on. It is interesting though, that [...]

It is wonderful to see the sun shining at last this summer. People are wearing summer clothes and all around me I see smiling faces. Sunshine makes people happy. In fact most of my happiest childhood memories are of long hot summers, playing out side and having water fights with my friends [...]