Happy new year to all our clients and blog readers. We trust you had a good Christmas. With many people thinking about new beginnings etc. at this time of year, some of our readers may be considering making changes to their parenting approach. So...
Read moreOver the last few weeks we have looked at a number of interlinked issues related to raising children well. These included a mini-series on helping children’s self-esteem through meeting their intimacy needs, what to do about bullying, and...
Read moreIn today’s #ThursdayThoughts blog post, we are going to look at Owen’s advice on how parents can teach their children empathy. This is a good follow-on from last week’s post on bullying, as often bullying behaviour can stem...
Read moreUnfortunately, with today’s post we reach the end of our mini-series on childhood intimacy needs and how they affect us into adulthood. We hope you have found Owen’s insights helpful and thought-provoking. Whether you found the...
Read moreLast week we started to look at how we can address our own unmet childhood intimacy needs. In the post, Owen discussed the general process of attachment and bonding that children go through with their parents and how things can sometimes go awry...
Read moreAs we mentioned last week, we have come to the end of the first part of our #Thursday Thoughts mini-series on the intimacy needs of children and how parents can meet these needs to help their children have good self esteem. How our own needs are...
Read moreThis week’s #Thursday Thoughts blog post brings us to the end of the first part of our small mini-series on the main intimacy needs of childhood. We looked at how they impact on the self-esteem of our children and affect us as adults too...
Read moreContinuing 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 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 moreOwen Connolly was interviewed in Maternity & Infant magazine on his views on the negative effects on children of birth interventions like C-sections.
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