Beware: Social Media Messaging Services
A new report by the children’s commissioner has found that 60% of 8-year olds and 90% of 12-year olds use some sort of social media messaging service, such as Facebook and WhatsApp...
Message to the young people of Wales
The Mind Of My Own mantra is simple - all children’s voices should be heard. This doesn’t only apply to young people using care services.
My conversion to mindfulness
I have a confession: I have never been much good at looking after my own mental health. With a tendency from childhood to internalise problems and threats, the first indication that my emotional wellbeing...
Focus on early help
Early intervention and early help are good for children, families and services which is why we should all be focussed on ensuring this works as well as possible.
Be present in the Covid moment
Some children and young people are struggling with their emotional wellbeing during the current crisis.
We’re in isolation, but we aren’t isolated
In the last two weeks I’ve been reminded of this blog post we published back in September 2017 about the Mind Of My Own team working remotely.