by Gavin Devereux | Mar 14, 2020 | Advice
Overcoming anxiety Overcoming anxiety Anxiety is like rust. To start with, you can’t see it because it’s all below the surface. Therefore initially everything seems fine to the casual onlooker. Then specks begin to show up. In the beginning, the effects are...
by Gavin Devereux | Jan 18, 2020 | Advice
Children’s self-esteem matters Children’s self-esteem matters Children’s self-esteem matters because it’s directly linked to accomplishment and fulfilment. Building children’s self-esteem matters more today than ever before...
by Gavin Devereux | Dec 15, 2019 | Advice
Building children’s self-esteem Building children’s self-esteem The emotional “bank account”! Building children’s self-esteem is about helping them to fill up their emotional “bank account”. It’s also about helping them to...
by Gavin Devereux | Nov 16, 2019 | Advice
Advice How to build children’s confidence People have been asking to hear my thoughts about how to build children’s confidence. Lets begin by considering how self-confidence or loss of self-confidence occurs. But, before we do that it’s really important to know...
by Gavin Devereux | Aug 17, 2019 | Advice
Advice What’s in my teen’s mind?I often found myself scratching my head, wondering what’s in my teen’s mind. It was so difficult for me to know, mostly I was guessing.I’m sure I was way off the mark most of the time because nothing I did or said seemed to...
by Gavin Devereux | Jun 12, 2019 | Advice
Advice Motivating teenagers – the first steps!As parents, our aim is to help our children avoid the mistakes that we made when we were young. We want to see them develop into happy, successful adults. But motivating teenagers can be really tricky! Let’s face it,...