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Our kids don't need perfect parents; they need parents who reliably show up for them while looking for ways to build trust. These parents make deposits into their child's emotional bank account. When their relational account is full, they feel trusting, safe and secure.

In this blog, a dad tells his story about the impact that separating parent support can have on communication, co-parenting and keeping his children at the centre of choices and decisions.

Our children communicate how they're feeling through their words and actions. We need to slow down and tune in to build trust and be that safe harbour that all children need to thrive.

It's not the fact that parents choose to divorce that is the risk factor to children, it's the ongoing unresolved parental conflict that can have lifelong implications for children of divorce. Here we explore why.

5 tips to help children of separation and divorce feel that they belong and that 'This is my Place'

Parenting is a long game played out in the countless tiny interactions we have with our kids every single day. It’s tough to remember when we’re in the thick of it that we’re raising adults. We hope they’ll be resilient, content, kind and independent with strong self-belief and self-awareness, feeling valued, respected, treasured, and purposeful, but how do we get from here to there? It's all about what we do and say in our tiny daily interactions. Here are just a few of the small things that make a difference

We're experiencing an epidemic of teen health health. Over the last 14 years, we've watch as our kids have become more anxious, more depressed and lonelier. Jonathan Haidt, in his groundbreaking book, The Anxious Generation lays our the causality between this devastating decline in mental health and the twin dynamics of the adoption of smartphones by our teens and the end of the play-based childhood. Combined with a shift away from ' community' we are experiencing a phenonmen that we must reverse.

Perfectionist pressure results in girls playing it safe and it crushes risk taking, creativity and ambition. Here we look at how we can help our girls break free from the shackles of trying to be perfect.

Divorce is stressful for children, but with care, insight, and a determination to keep the children and their needs at the centre, both parents can emerge from divorce with a deeper, more profound relationship with their children that sets them up for a happy and healthy future. Here are 5 essential steps for children who thrive.