The purpose of this blog is two-fold: firstly, it’s to help parents decide whether I’m the right child psychologist for you and your family.  As with many areas of expertise, it’s not uncommon to find very different views and opinions on how to best fix a problem, and this is very much the case when…

I don’t have a huge media profile. I don’t do speaking engagements or guest appearances on radio and TV. I see parents and children in my private practice, usually referred by GP’s, Paediatricians and schools, and a lot by word of mouth.  In nearly 20 years, I’ve had over 20,000 appointments, talking with parents and…

After nearly 20 years and over 20,000 appointments with parents and children discussing children’s behaviour problems, here are the top ten things I’ve learnt along the way: Children need to just DO AS THEY’RE TOLD! Children are not “Their own Boss”!  You (the parent) are THE BOSS! Children’s misbehaviour is usually just that, children misbehaving….

For quite a while now the good old parenting strategy known as Time-Out has been copping a lot of negative flack. It has been claimed that Time-Out is harmful to children; that using Time-Out can traumatise children and cause them short and long-term harm.  It’s been argued that Time-Out sends the message that the child…