‘Keep on telling me what I am, and that’s what I’ll become’.Be careful how you describe your children to their faces, to your friends and listen to what other family members say about each other and be mindful of accepting what you hear from your child’s teachers. Labels are easy to give and hard to undo.Remember the nicknames, the stories told and the jokes you received as a child. And just be aware of the nicknames, jokes and stories and teasing that goes on in your house. These are the signs that family members are cast into roles and given labels to match.’Oh, he’s the clever one in the family but he hasn’t got any common sense’, ‘She’s a bit of a tearaway’ ‘My youngest is so untidy and clumsy” “Oh, she’s the artistic one.”Labelling is disabling and limiting if you are not aware of it as children are sensitive to labelling and can see it as criticism. They can also take this forward throughout their life - still thinking they are the “bad at maths one” all their life. So don’t beat yourself up if you’ve suddenly noticed this in your family just make a conscious effort to […]

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