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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.

'Know Yourself Grow Yourself' was Place2Be's Children's Mental Health Week's theme reinforcing the importance of self-awareness in children's mental wellbeing. Here are three evidence-based strategies that encourage self-discovery and emotional awareness – and build all-important connection and resilience.

Understanding temperament is a game changer in parenting

Setting up for success through the transitions and change that are part of life in two homes.

3 strategies to help your children process their grief

Five steps to support yourself through your divorce and be present for your kids

Divorce can feel challenging and overwhelming. It's hard to know where to begin. Here is one question that you can ask yourself as you embark on your co-parenting journey that will help give you clarity, confidence and compassion.

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.

How to set screen limits while strengthening your connection with your kids.