Monthly Archive:: January 2014

Divorce advice for the 250,000 children who need it

Children whose parents are splitting up will be able to seek help and advice from teenagers who have experienced family breakdown thanks to a new internet helpline launching this weekend. Kidsinthemiddle.org.uk will also offer video explanations of the stages of divorce and what the jargon means, with youngsters interviewing lawyers and parents. Its founders say [&hellip

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Let children tackle bullies on their own, parents told

Parents should leave children to protect themselves against low-level bullying, an academic has suggested. Overprotective parenting allows bullying to flourish because children do not become “inoculated” by dealing with conflict on their own, Dieter Wolke said. The professor of psychology at Warwick University said parents who do everything for their children often fail to equip [&hellip

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