Latest Blogs From Fegans
Free-range Parenting: What Is it and How Can it Be useful?
If the term ‘free-range parenting’ makes you think of kids knee deep in mess, perhaps drinking their dad’s beer, you’d be forgiven. But, you would be right in thinking that giving children...
How to Help Your Child Transition to Secondary School
The cuddly, cosy atmosphere of primary school is soon to end for Year 6 children across the country. At the end of the summer they will be joining secondary school, with new social...
The Rise of Eco-Anxiety in Young Children
The climate crisis is taking a growing toll on the mental health of children and young people. Increasing levels of “eco-anxiety” – the chronic fear of environmental doom – were likely to...
How to Survive Christmas as a Divorced Parent
Christmas is a special time for children which traditionally involves the family unit but if parents are newly separated or divorced, Christmas can bring extra challenges. To avoid a...
Bereavement and Loss
Losing someone or something we love and feel close to is extremely difficult and painful. Grief is our natural emotional response to this loss, and it is a process rather than an event....
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Volunteer Blog – Parent Support Worker
by Sally Ross “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade" is a proverbial phrase used to encourage optimism and a positive can-do attitude in the face of adversity or misfortune. I stole...
PRESS RELEASE Children are Missing out on Contact with their Fathers finds DAD.info Survey on Post-Separation Parenting
38% of Mums say their children do not spend time with their Dads following separation or divorce One in five Dads (19%) who lost contact did not see their children for over six...
REPORT Divorce 1000* Hearing the voices of 1000* parents with lived experience of separation and divorce
Inspired by the thousands of distressed children in our Fegans counselling rooms and the heartbroken parents in our DAD.info forum, this survey was devised to gain insight into the impact...
PRESS RELEASE Sally Phillips to Host Virtual Family Quiz for Local Charity
Sally Phillips to Host Virtual Family Quiz for Local Charity Actress and writer Sally Phillips is to host a virtual family quiz to raise money for local charity Fegans which supports...
Supporting Adolescents during Lockdown
by Louise Tantam, Fegans’ Counsellor The lockdown has been especially tough on teenagers – deprived of their friends, unsure about their exams, worried about job prospects in a...
The Third Lockdown – What Will You Do Differently? Part 1
Here we are… again. The third, some would say inevitable, lockdown is upon us, and it feels a little bit like stepping into a time warp. There's no firm end date, but we've been warned it...
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