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Screens and Skype and small children

by Ruth Coppard | Jan 16, 2014 | Uncategorised

There is a lot of research about babies and screens, toddlers and screens etc. Each year there seem to be more screens for everyone to watch. Doctors and others talk about very small children going up to pictures, screens and even books and wiping their fingers across...

My child will not do as he’s told

by Ruth Coppard | Jan 14, 2014 | Uncategorised

We were a bunch of psychologists together last night discussing children, our children and parenting. This arose from a journalist who wrote about her relationship with her teenagers. She told them what to do and the she sort-of laughed as she wrote how they ignored...

When does altruism start?

by Ruth Coppard | Jan 9, 2014 | Uncategorised

A curious coincidence. Last week a television programme from BBC1 phoned to check out what I thought about people being Good or Evil. Did I believe people were born Good or Evil? What about the idea of Original Sin? Catholics seems to think that babies are born in the...

Parenting

by Ruth Coppard | Jan 7, 2014 | Uncategorised

The boy who came in today had two parents with him. It was only halfway through the interview that I realised his parents had been divorced for some time but now worked together and came together to meetings about their son. There has been a big change in the way...

win some, lose some

by Ruth Coppard | Dec 17, 2013 | Uncategorised

Well, I phoned a mum and asked whether talking to me had helped. She was polite but rather non-committal so I guess it wasnt a whole lot of help. I think it was largely because she didn’t adhere strictly to the behaviour schedule, but I had clearly failed to impress...

Road safety

by Ruth Coppard | Dec 12, 2013 | Uncategorised

I am involved in consultation regarding a road safety App. And in 2007/8 I did something similar with regard to the CopyCat campaign. Children die and are injured in road traffic accidents and this started when the first cars got onto the roads. Cars are mean and...