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View the parenting articles about parent/child and adolescent relationships from the St Mary’s College Counsellors below.
Parent/child and adolescent relationships
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Aiming for Independence -
Body Image in Children and Adolescents tips for parents and carers
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Bonding and Learning Through Play
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Building Confidence
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Calm Parents Calm Kids
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Children and Diversity
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Christmas - Spending Time Together
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Christmas Message
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Communicating with Your Child – high impact conversations
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Competence and Independence
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Confidence Helping Your Kids Develop Confidence Capacity and Mastery
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Connecting at Christmas Time
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Decision Making
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Delaying Gratification
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Developmental Tasks for 12-18-Year-Olds
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Developmental Tasks for 4-5-Year-Olds
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Developmental Tasks for 6-11-Year-Olds
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Does Your Child Tell Lies
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Emotion Coaching
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Emotion Coaching Role of the School Counsellor and a Relationship Strategy
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Emotional Wellbeing and Diet
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Enjoying Your Children
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Extra Curricula Activities
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Fathers and Daughters
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Forgiveness
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Growing and changing - who are you and what have you done with my beautiful child?
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Growth Mindset
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Happy Holidays
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Helping Children Learn to Cope with Failure
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Holding on to Your Childs Trust
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How to Talk with Children about Tragic World Events
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Kindness - Tis the Season to Show Kindness
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Laughter Antidote and Modelling
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Learned Helplessness
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Learning Happiness
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Learning Self Control
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Lightening up - the role of humour in parenting
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Listening To Your Child
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Loving Your Child But Not Liking Them
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Managing Behaviour Encouragement and Rewards
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Mindfulness for Children and Adults and the Benefits
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Motivation
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Parent Concerns - To Go Up to School or Not That is the Question
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Pets and Children
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Pick Your Battles
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Promoting Happiness by Giving
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Protective and Overprotective Parenting
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Protective Parenting
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Recap and Happy Festive Season
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Relationship Building - Things Your Child Should Never Hear You Say
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Respectful Relationships
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Rituals - The Importance of Rituals to Family Life
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Routines
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Shaming Kids - Let's Look at Alternatives
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Strengthening the Bonds
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Talking about Mental Illness with Your Child
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Talking About the School Day
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Talking About Tragic Situations
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Teaching kindness
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The comfort and connecting value of rituals
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The Questions Parents Ask
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Traditions and Rituals
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Tragic World Events - How Do You Talk To Your Children When Terrible Things Are Happening In The World
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Unconditional Love
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Unhelpful Thinking Styles
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What Do You Do When You Are Not Quite Sure What To Do Next
