In school, we talk a lot about “role models”. Teachers know pupils are watching, so we work hard to be positive examples. We are rarely perfect, and that’s part of our role-modelling.  Parents are our children’s most important teachers. Children learn far more from what we do than from what we say. Home is where they first see what love looks like, what respect feels like, and how adults behave when life is difficult.

In school, we talk a lot about “role models”. Teachers know pupils are watching, so we work hard to be positive examples. We are rarely perfect, and that’s part of our role-modelling. Parents are our children’s most important teachers. Children learn far more from what we do than from what we say. Home is where they first see what love looks like, what respect feels like, and how adults behave when life is difficult.

“Long-term well-being always trumps short-term peace.”Recently, I’ve noticed a shift in parenting, with many of usfeeling pressure to keep our children happy at all times. Themoment a child cries or looks unhappy, we rush to fix it. Whatoften gets missed is how quickly children learn to influencethese situations, not to be difficult, but because that’s how…

Over the past few years, it has often felt as though the world around children has become increasingly complicated. Childhood seems to be shifting faster than any of us can keep up with. As a headt…