Michael Hawton, Child Psychologist (MAPS) and Parentshop founder.
I recently addressed the national IPSHA conference, on the topic of the steady rise in the number of anxious parents presenting to authorities on their children’s behalf. As you are most likely aware, this is increasing stress for teaching staff, creating more pressure on resources and ultimately affecting children’s capacity to manage many of life’s issues for themselves.
After that address I was prompted by interest in this topic from school leaders and have since provided a series of six articles speaking to parents, for publication in school newsletters or other school publications.
The articles provide tips on positive parenting and managing parental anxiety and are approximately 600-700 words (about the same length as newspaper articles) and in a particular order.
From your perspective, it may be useful for a third party (like myself), to be offering this information through the attached articles, as some of what I am relaying to parents is quite challenging regarding the role that they play in their children’s lives.
Please feel free to call or email me if you are interested in obtaining these articles, I have attached two from the series (Article 1 and Article 3) and are happy to provide the rest of the articles at your request and at no charge.