by Ruth Coppard | Dec 9, 2013 | Uncategorised
Yesterday a lovely family came in to show me how well their son was doing. It was his birthday, he was 11. Mum and Dad don’t live together any more but get on very well and boy is clear that he is much loved. He had been quite depressed at school and threatening to...
by Ruth Coppard | Dec 5, 2013 | Uncategorised
Yesterday the papers featured a very zealous football coach. He coached Under-10s and had sent out an email saying he was not there so the boys could have fun playing– he was ‘only interested in winning’. He said parents who complained when their boy did not make the...
by Ruth Coppard | Dec 3, 2013 | Uncategorised
A colleague spoke today about her cousin. Cousin has one son aged ten. People were surprised when she became pregnant and decided to keep the baby. Cousin spoke of going on holiday to Spain and of everything she was planning to buy for the boy so that he won’t be...
by Ruth Coppard | Nov 28, 2013 | Uncategorised
Back to Laney, What is a Mandala? Working on the Lewis Carroll proposition that a word means what you want it to mean, I use the word to mean a circle that reflects emotions. In a jotter, each page should have an empty circle. Each person who is doing this, and in an...
by Ruth Coppard | Nov 25, 2013 | Uncategorised
There were press reports today about cumulative long-term research which shows that vast numbers of fathers lose touch with their children after a divorce or similar. More men fail to keep in touch if they go on to have a second family than if they just move to live...
by Ruth Coppard | Nov 21, 2013 | Uncategorised
Laney is the older of two children. She is pretty, and popular at school some years. Last year she was not popular and her mother worried about her a lot. Laney used to come home from school crying – of course her mother worried. School said that there was not a...
