Why Your Pre-Teen or Teen still needs to “Play”
Yes, if you've followed our blogs for some time now, you'll find that we talk about"Play" as something that will follow us from childhood...
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Fecha Yap
- Jan 26
- 2 min
How Play Therapy promotes Problem-Solving Skills to enact change in children.
Since the 1930s, play therapy has been a popular alternative therapeutic treatment for children. The consensus among child psychiatrists...
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Fecha Yap
- Jan 9
- 4 min
How an Emotional Child Can Benefit from PlayTherapy
We appreciate that it is not always easy for parents to discuss child therapy. No parent wants their child to "require therapy," which is...
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Fecha Yap
- Dec 13, 2022
- 5 min
Should I be worried about my child’s aggression?
Even for some adults, mastering the ability to control one's emotions can be challenging. Between the ages of 1 and 3, your child is just...
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Fecha Yap
- Nov 29, 2022
- 5 min
What are some signs your child might need counselling?
When your child's personality suddenly changes, you might wonder, "Does my child need therapy?" Sometimes these changes appear as a...
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Fecha Yap
- Oct 30, 2022
- 4 min
What to do when your child gets into trouble at school.
When children get into trouble at school, it is often a sign of an underlying issue. Parents frequently deal with the issue of their...
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Fecha Yap
- Oct 30, 2022
- 6 min
How to help your child cope with your divorce?
There is a saying that goes "Your children are only as happy as your marriage". The best thing you can give your children is a happy...
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Fecha Yap
- Oct 24, 2022
- 3 min
Signs your child is grieving and how to support them.
Grief looks, different for everybody. When things end, it doesn't necessarily mean an exclusive emotion we experience when someone passes...
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Fecha Yap
- Oct 11, 2022
- 4 min
Night Terrors, Nightmares, and trouble sleeping at night. What to do and how Play Therapy can help.
What are night terrors? If you have ever had the experience of your child suddenly getting exceedingly anxious while in deep sleep, then...
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Fecha Yap
- Aug 21, 2022
- 3 min
Tantrums – What are they and how do I stop them?
Tantrums can be quite tough to deal with as a parent. When your child erupts in a mall or "loses it" while you're at the grocery store,...
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Fecha Yap
- Aug 2, 2022
- 2 min
What to do when your child stops listening.
Your child has free will and they won't always listen to you all the time. We're also just human, and we won't always be able to execute...
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Fecha Yap
- Jul 11, 2022
- 3 min
How connecting with your child improves behaviour.
No universal guidebook to parenting tells you how exactly you should raise your child. Often parents develop styles over time,...
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Fecha Yap
- May 29, 2022
- 3 min
5 ways you can discipline your child in a positive manner.
It goes without saying that you care very much about how you interact with your children and how you raise them. Parents that struggle...
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Fecha Yap
- Mar 18, 2022
- 4 min
5 Parenting Mistakes that can Cause Childhood Trauma
They don't call being a parent the toughest job in the world for no reason! Many of us have thought about what it would be like raising a...
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Fecha Yap
- Mar 13, 2022
- 3 min
Gentle Parenting - What is it? And should you try it?
I'm sure you've heard the term "gentle parenting" floating around the internet lately. If this is a new concept to you, we'll attempt to...
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Fecha Yap
- Feb 3, 2022
- 2 min
Why every parent should consider Play Therapy for their child.
I often get asked just how effective Play Therapy is by parents. Over the course of my career of working with children, I see first-hand...
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Fecha Yap
- Jan 24, 2022
- 3 min
How deeply rooted can your child’s trauma be?
Understanding how your child's brain develops is a great way to explore this question. A lot of parents have this misconception that...
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Fecha Yap
- Dec 19, 2021
- 3 min
How you can get your children to listen without having to shout!
We've all been there! You find yourself having to yell at the top of your lungs to get your children to listen and do as they're told!...
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Fecha Yap
- Dec 13, 2021
- 5 min
5 Ways to Reduce your Child’s Clinginess!
We've all been there, we go to a children's party and our child suddenly refuses to let go and join in on the fun! How frustrating! If...
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Fecha Yap
- Dec 8, 2021
- 3 min
Are you responding or reacting to your child?
A lot of us growing up may not have had parents who modeled how to work through difficult emotions for us. In an ideal world, we would...
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