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The Magic Beanstalk Series - Article 4 Nobody warns you about the guilt. Not the dramatic kind — the missed nativity, the birthday cake that bore no resemblance to the picture. Those are the ones we laugh about eventually, usually at someone else’s kitchen table with a glass of wine. I mean the quiet kind. The is-this-enough kind. The one that arrives somewhere between putting the washing on and finally sitting down. We are living through an era of extraordinary information about child...

The Magic Beanstalk Series - Article 3 Roots are invisible. They grow underground, quietly and without fanfare. Nobody sees them forming. Nobody notices their work. And yet without them — nothing stands. Some of our most anxious children are exactly like this. Invisible. Quiet. Doing all their work entirely underground. But not all of them. We tend to think of childhood anxiety as something we’d recognise immediately. Tears at the school gate. Refusal. The child whose distress fills the room....

The Magic Beanstalk Series — Small Practices, Big Roots — Article 2   The soil is never perfect. It is messy, sometimes rocky, occasionally waterlogged and frequently full of things we didn't plan for. And yet — remarkable things grow in imperfect soil every single day. Sound familiar? Picture the scene. A Sunday morning café. Coffee in hand, finally — finally — a moment of stillness. Except nearby, a little one is having a very big moment, and their parent is doing their absolute best to...