The book you wish your parents had read

March 18, 2019.Reading time 2 minutes.

I have been dipping in and out of psychotherapist Philippa Perry’s new tome, ‘The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read’ this week. Though I have yet to have the time to delve into it properly, Perry’s writing has inspired, unsettled and annoyed me in equal measure. Although benevolently written and easy to read, it is not a book that can be […]

Overcoming Procrastination

March 7, 2019.Reading time 5 minutes.

I have been meaning to write this for about three days, but I have always found good reasons to do something else. Such procrastination can be a barrier to learning development and progress clutters our mind, hanging over us as a cloud and detracting from our happiness. Psychologists have been trying to figure out the science […]

How much screen time is too much? It’s complicated…

February 8, 2019.Reading time 4 minutes.

For many parents, debates about screen time and devices have become a regular part of family life, and knowing how much is too much has become somewhat of a moving target. “Whether it’s three-year-olds throwing tantrums when the iPad is taken away, seven-year-olds watching YouTube all night, nine-year-olds demanding their own phones, 11-year-olds nagging to […]

An introduction…

February 1, 2019.Reading time 4 minutes.

I have been wanting to find the time to blog since I began my doctoral training to become an Educational Psychologist some 9 years or so ago. Partly, my thinking behind blogging was a somewhat selfish reflective process, but I also wanted to think-out-loud about the findings of contemporary research, to ‘trouble’, question and contemplate some […]