December 14th, 2011
Dealing with Disappointment
by Val Mullally
Letters from Santa and his North Pole team re How to Have a Happy Christmas Despite Freezing Financial Conditions.
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Letters from Santa and his North Pole team re How to Have a Happy Christmas Despite Freezing Financial Conditions.
December 13th, 2011
Children’s ‘needs’ – or ‘wants’?
by Val Mullally
Letters from Santa and his North Pole team re How to Have a Happy Christmas Despite Freezing Financial Conditions.
December 12th, 2011
What to do with Children’s ‘Great Expectations’?
by Val Mullally
December 06th, 2011
How to Have a Happy Christmas Despite Freezing Financial Conditions
by Val Mullally
‘Twelve Days of Christmas’ – a letter to Santa and his reply for Parents each day for 12 days until Christmas Eve.
See you for our 'First Day of Christmas' - talking about when children have huge expectations - on Monday 12 December!
November 15th, 2011
An Option to Meltdown
by Val Mullally
It was the fourth week of our Parenting Programme, and Jane shared her story with the parents and myself, as facilitator, in her group. She’d had the flu during the week and one day was so off-colour that she left her five year old son, Timmy, to choose his own clothes for school. Later in the week he decided that he didn’t want to choose from the either/or outfits that she’d put ready – he wanted to choose his clothes himself. He started whining. She can’t stand him whining so she became increasingly uptight. He started having a meltdown and Jane left the room before she exploded. The other parents gave little chuckles – it was easy to identify with this situation.
‘How do I do it differently?’ she asked.
I invited her to role-play the situation, with me being the mother and her taking the role of the child. I wish I’d had the video camera rolling, but this is roughly what transpired.