Continuing on with our mini-series focused on the intimacy needs of childhood, today’s #Thursday Thoughts blog post discusses the third main intimacy need. Reviewing these needs and doing our best to meet them, can help us as parents to ensure...
Read moreHow has our own childhood affected our parenting? And how can we overcome our own challenges when raising our children so that they have greater self-esteem than we do? Currently in our #Thursday Thoughts blog posts we are busy with a mini-series...
Read moreCurrently in our #Thursday Thoughts blog posts we are busy with a mini-series that considers how childhood experiences affect our adult lives and influence our parenting. (You can start here if you’re only joining us now.) Last week we...
Read moreIn last week’s #Thursday Thoughts blog post we started a mini-series that considers how childhood experiences affect our adult lives and influence our parenting. (You can read it here if you missed it.) Owen Connolly has some great insights...
Read moreWe can all agree that our childhood, and the parenting we received then, has effects that reach into all aspects of our adult lives. But how does this influence, for good or bad, the way that we parent our children? In his book for fathers, Owen...
Read moreIn today’s #Thursday Thoughts blog post we are focusing on communication between parents in a family. The parents’ relationship has a huge impact on the rearing of their children and communication is key, according to Owen Connolly in...
Read moreCarrying on with our Thursday blog series based on Owen Connolly’s book for fathers, “Standing on the Shoulders of Giants”, in today’s post we look at how to parent without reacting to, or re-enacting, our own upbringing...
Read moreWe are starting a new series here on our blog called “Therapists’ Thoughts” which will run once a month with an article contributed by one of the Connolly Counselling Centre’s therapists. To kick this series off...
Read moreWhat does it mean to love other people equally? Indeed, how do we as parents love our own children fairly? Do we treat each child exactly the same and measure out our affection carefully so as to avoid favouritism? How do we acknowledge our...
Read moreThis Thursday we consider a topic that is very much in the news and increasingly on the minds of parents, society and government too. It seems that childhood obesity is only increasing, despite the measures many are taking to address it. In his...
Read moreTeenagers! Can’t live with them, can’t live without them… But what exactly is a teenager, and are they the same as adolescents? In today’s extract from the Owen’s book for fathers, he gives an interesting perspective...
Read moreWe hope you enjoyed last week’s blog post about the role of men as providers in their families. As we settle back into our Thursday series routine again, today we look at a consistently important issue for young children – promises...
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