You are not superwoman!

When we have children we want to be everything they ever need. We want to be there for them when they fall, when they struggle and fail. We want to make the world a safe place for them and we want to make them happy. When they are upset, we feel their pain and when they're angry we feel their sense of injustice or frustration.

These last two years have created huge unprecedented pressure on parents because of the uncertainty, fear and lack of control. Every family has been affected and now with the situation in Ukraine it seems our lives will never be the same again as a new wave of uncertainty builds. What do we tell them? How do we protect them? How can we make things right for our family?

We are now in unprecedented times of stress and we have no control over it. We have very limited power to make the world a safer place for them. To some extent our control ends the moment they leave the house. What we can do though is to build their resilience from the earliest opportunity.

When we t…