John Sharry

Question: Could you address how to manage a friend who is smothering another friend (emotionally and physically – both aged 8). The friend won’t let o(...)

Question: My 3-year-old girl is showing a lot of attitude lately, telling me to do things, stamping her feet when she doesn’t get her way, etc. Is thi(...)

Question: My daughter who is four years old gets very excited in shops (especially sweet and toy shops). She looks at a toy and if she does not get it(...)

Over the last six articles in our series titled “Pressure Points” we have explored what parents can do to empower their children to make responsible c(...)

How do I set my eight-year-old daughter up so she’s not part of a group of girls who are excluding one girl in the class? The context is that the(...)

As children grow older, a big worry for parents is that their children might “fall in with the wrong crowd” or be part of a negative or irresponsible (...)

Question: I’ve just taken my 4-year-old son to the GP as he had a bad cold and I wanted to make sure it wasn’t the flu. While I was there, out of the (...)

In recent times we have read about the problems of being a “helicopter parent” who “hovers” over children becoming over-involved, deciding too much fo(...)

I don’t know where else to turn to for advice. My daughter has started secondary school and is not fitting in with her peers. She finds it hard to tal(...)

When thinking of all the dangers that confront our children (such as alcohol, drugs, the internet, etc), it can be hard to know how and when to discus(...)