Separation Anxiety
How should you deal with separation anxiety? Although it can make life rather difficult for parents, separation anxiety is a normal stage of your child’s development. It is an indication that your child has formed a secure attachment to you and feels happy and safe when they’re with you. Being separated from you for short […]
Thoughts on hysterical moms
I work with many different types of people in my practice and in all honesty I have to admit that I have worked with mothers whom I myself have secretly labelled as “completely hysterical”. You also hear it from other people around them: many a father has sat on my couch and referred to the […]
Teenage Pregnancy
Even though recent studies suggest that the teenage pregnancy rate in South Africa has remained relatively stable in recent years, it is difficult to ignore the fact that 71 out of every 1000 births annually are to teenage mothers. In 2013 there were 99 000 teenage pregnancies in our country (that’s 271 girls falling pregnant […]
When kids are too scared to try
It breaks my heart. They sit at my desk looking like deer in headlights: eyes wide; nostrils flaring and stubbornly, resolutely refusing to even just try. Their potential is so obvious! I know that if I could fast forward into the future these will be the star athletes, ground-breaking scientist and award-winning actresses of tomorrow […]
How to help children with Selective Mutism
Children with selective mutism are physically capable of speaking, but do not speak in specific situations or to specific people. For more information on Selective Mutism and how it presents in children, read this article: http://www.childpsych.co.za/barriers-to-learning/selective-mutism/ Selective Mutism (SM) is a debilitating disorder and may have a very negative impact on a child’s daily functioning in […]
Vervroegde puberteit
Vervroegde puberteit verwys na die verskynsel waar ‘n kind se liggaam op ‘n te vroee ouderdom in ‘n volwasse liggaam begin verander. Dit kan met meisies sowel as seuns gebeur, maar meisies is 10 keer meer waarskynlik om aan vervroegde puberteit te lei as seuns. Met normale aanvang van puberteit vind veranderinge in biologiese, psigiese […]
Hoe gemaak met ‘n boelie?
Boelie gedrag kan verskeie vorms aan neem: Dit kan fisiek wees (waar ‘n boelie ander te lyf gaan en skop, slaan, byt, spoeg, potjie, ens.); verbaal wees (waar boelies fals gerugte versprei, ander spot, vloek of verneder); sosiaal wees (waar boelies ander bewusltelik uitsluit, ander teen hom draai en aanmoedig om nie met hom vriendelik […]
Geldsake: Leer so jou kind
Finansiele vaardighede is absoluut noodskaaklik in die lewe, tog is dit die een aspek van mens wees waarin kinders min tot geen opleiding ontvang nie. Die skool kurrikulum spreek dit amper glad nie aan nie en baie ouers begin eers in die tiener-jare met hul kinders praat oor finansiele bestuur. Tog toon navorsing deur die […]
Dissipline
Om dissipline te handhaaf is vir meeste ouers die heel slegste deel van ouerskap. Tog is dit uiters belangrik in ons taak om ons kinders in gesonde, gebalanseerde, onafhanklike volwassenes te ontskep. Soos wat kinders ouer word is daar voortdurend ‘n mags-verskuiwing in die ouer-kind verhouding en ouers moet hul dissipline styl gedurig hiervoor aanpas. […]
Alternatiewe gesinne
Alternatiewe Gesinne Die alternatiewe gesin het in Suid-Afrika die norm geword en die tradisionele prentjie wat vir baie van ons voorgeskryf word van ‘n mamma, pappa en 2 kinders is selde werklikheid. SAIRA (South African Institute of Race Relations)berig dat slegs 33% van Suid Afrikaanse kinders groot word in ‘n tradisionele gesin met twee ouers. […]