“Be the one who nurtures and builds. Be the one who has an understanding and forgiving heart. One who looks for the best in other people. Leave people better than you found them”

— Marcus Aurelius

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November 03, 2017

How to prevent bullying - ditch the yes or no questions

November 03, 2017/ Harley Street Wellbeing Clinic

If you want to stop your child from being bullied — or better yet, prevent it in the first place — there is a very simple thing you can do: talk to your child.

We don’t so much mean talk to your child about standing up to bullies, or about letting a teacher know if they see or experience bullying, although both of those are important messages for your child to hear. We mean literally just talk to your child, so that you can better get to know him or her — and better get to know what their daily life is like.

October 26, 2017

The impact of exam pressure on students' wellbeing - Margareta James interview with the Cambridge News

October 26, 2017/ Harley Street Wellbeing Clinic

Doing well at school is a worry all youngsters have to contend with – but are schoolchildren in Cambridge more stressed than we thought?

It could be so, after it emerged children as young as 6 are now being treated for stress by professionals, with the pressure of taking school tests cited as one of the most common denominators.

October 18, 2017

The hazards of bad sleep — early predictors of alcohol and cannabis use

October 18, 2017/ Harley Street Wellbeing Clinic

Scientists have discovered a possible link between sleep habits and early substance abuse. Sleep duration and quality during late childhood seem to predict alcohol and cannabis use later.

“Treating problems with drugs and alcohol once they exist and preventing them can be challenging, and we are always looking for modifiable risk factors,” says..

September 20, 2017

Worrying research points to a crisis situation - quarter of 14-year-old girls 'have signs of depression'

September 20, 2017/ Harley Street Wellbeing Clinic

A quarter of girls and nearly one in 10 boys show signs of depression at the age of 14, say UK researchers. The government-funded study of over 10,000 young people looked at how many experienced the signs of depression not a clinical diagnosis of one.

July 10, 2017

Parenting in real life...

July 10, 2017/ Harley Street Wellbeing Clinic

Before becoming parents, we all have a view of how we will raise our children, what we will do and won’t ever do in situations, and how we will shape their little lives, so they can be happy, healthy and can live a fulfilling life they desire. Then something happens...

February 23, 2017

The Cambridge News interviewed us about body confidence issues

February 23, 2017/ Harley Street Wellbeing Clinic

Sadly, growing number of children and young people face 'body confidence issues'.

New research by the Professional Association for Childcare and Early Years (PACEY) has found that almost a third of nursery and school staff said they had heard a child label themselves fat and 10% said they had heard a child say they felt ugly.

November 24, 2016

What Science Really Says about Spanking

November 24, 2016/ Harley Street Wellbeing Clinic

To spank or not to spank? Experts argue that this form of punishment—hitting a child on the bottom with an open hand—increases the risk that kids will develop emotional and behavioural problems including increased aggression, behavioural and mental health problems, and reduced cognitive ability and self-esteem.

March 07, 2016

The Superior Social Skills of Bilinguals

March 07, 2016/ Harley Street Wellbeing Clinic

BEING bilingual has some obvious advantages. Learning more than one language enables new conversations and new experiences. But in recent years, psychology researchers have demonstrated some less obvious advantages of bilingualism, too.

December 02, 2015

Santa - fantasy ruined by the internet? We discussed this on BBC radio this morning.

December 02, 2015/ Harley Street Wellbeing Clinic

A research has just come out about how the internet, namely “online ads, search engines and social media are spoiling children's belief in Santa. Since 1997, the year Google search launched, 26% of children have had their belief in Santa ended by the internet.”

We discussed this on the BBC Radio today with Paul Stainton.

November 09, 2015

3 steps to help if your child is mirror-writing.

November 09, 2015/ Harley Street Wellbeing Clinic

I come across a lot of parents worried sick about this. The truth is, there is no need to worry.
Everybody knows that to start with, young children are expected to write and read big letters, but after a few months they have to write and read smaller and smaller ones, which can be really difficult for them.

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