Training opportunity: Become a Family Mediator

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Would you like to be a Family Mediator? Are you interested in helping families to communicate better and to reach [...]

Maureen Smyth: It’s Playtime!

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Are you one of the thousands of guilt-tripped parents in the UK reading stories in the press berating you for [...]

Julie-Ann Murphy: Diary of the Easter Holidays

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  “I decraited a joolrai box with my mummy today. It was lovlai doing stuf with her.”   -Nia, aged [...]

Nicola Skinner: How to spend time with your child

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Nicola Skinner offers her own personal guide to spending time with your children. My daughter was born in the early [...]

Mark Stalker: Recently Separated with Kids? What Next?

Continuing our series of blogs for Child Contact Centre Awareness Week (22-26 April), Mark Stalker tackles the difficult subject of [...]

Case Study: Using a Child Contact Centre

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Continuing our informative series of blogs for Child Contact Centre Awareness Week, Paula McGuire interviews one set of parents about [...]

Sarah on The Challenges of Single Parenting

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As part of Child Contact Centre Awareness Week (22-26 April), Guest bloggerSarah from Glasgow Mummy shares her moving experience as [...]

Lifelines: Pauline Nimmo on European Child Contact Centre Awareness Week

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This Lifelines problem page written by local Child Contact Centre Manager Pauline Nimmo originally appeared in Scotland on Sunday (21/04/13). [...]

Child Contact Centre Awareness Week: Myths and Truths

Family Walking

  It’s Child Contact Centre Awareness Week in Scotland and in Europe. For those who are unaware of what a [...]

Infographic: Child Contact Centre Awareness Week 2013

Child Contact Cenre Awareness Week 2013 Infographic

Child Contact Centre Awareness Week is 22-28 April this year. We’ll have an amazing range of blog posts looking at [...]

22 – 28 April 2013 is European Child Contact Centre Awareness Week

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During European Child Contact Centre Awareness Week, 22-28 April 2013, Centres throughout Scotland will be opening their doors to family [...]

Child Contact Centre Awareness Week 22-28 April 2013

European Child Contact Centre Awareness Week is being held from 22 April to 28 April this year. Child Contact Centre [...]

Celebrating Mums- What Makes Us Smile on Mother’s Day?

Although the modern Mother’s Day was invented and trademarked in the early 20th century in the USA, celebrations of mothers [...]

Tayside and Fife Manager Vacancy

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Relationships Scotland Family Mediation Tayside and Fife are looking to recruit a Manager based in their Dundee office to take [...]

Are Aberdeen Men Really The UK’s Valentine’s Day Cheapskates?

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While Valentine’s Day spending in 2013 is likely to be at its highest since the recession began in 2008, not [...]

Vive la Romance!

Vive la Romance!

Christmas brings out the bah humbugs in some people. Valentine’s Day can get a similar response, with people saying: “It’s [...]

Valentine’s Day: How It All Began

History of Valentine's Day

Having been asked to contribute a piece on Valentine’s Day, my initial reaction was: “Oh no – not another commercially [...]

How Divorcées can Survive Valentine’s Day

How Divorcees Can Survive Valentine's Day

This is a special guest post from Maggie Currie. Going through divorce often leaves you feeling that you have nobody [...]

We’re looking for a volunteer blog editor

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Our current volunteer blog editor Nicola is leaving us to concentrate on her new future as a counsellor, we’d like [...]

Tell us your favourite Christmas song – win a £25 Amazon voucher! #TopTenXmas

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‘Christmas Wrapping’ by The Waitresses (video below) is the best Christmas song of all time. If you beg to differ then [...]

Tell us the worst Christmas present you’ve ever received – win a £25 Amazon voucher!

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Whether it’s the reindeer jumper your aunt Mabel knitted you in 1987 or the David Hasselhoff aftershave your dad bought [...]

Christmas dinners

Christmas dinner

It starts in our house with me asking hubby to go up the loft for the tree and decorations, usually [...]

How to avoid a Christmas crime scene

Christmas crime scene

The idea of an extended family get-together can be absolutely the best thing about Christmas for many people, but for [...]

A new kind of Christmas

new Christmas

And so Christmas approaches again and it’s almost a year since my dad died. It will be a strange time, [...]

A cup o’ kindness

A cup o' kindness

So here we are on the third day of December and already the Christmas hysteria has begun. Please do not [...]