A child psychologist has explained the one thing parents should never say top their children, and it is a common mistake many of us make. Professor Sam Wass is an expert in child stress and has previously appeared on the Channel 4 show The Secret Life of 4 and 5 Year Olds.
Speaking to The Mirror, he said the worst thing you can do is tell your children not to feel their emotions. Speaking in partnership with Virgin Media O2's Connected Playground, he said: "Inhibiting emotions doesn't work, it doesn't work for adults and it definitely doesn't work on a child, you can't just tell someone to cancel an emotion.
"So for example in September you always see all these parents marching their children to their first day of school, dragging them by the hand and their child is in floods of tears and the parent is walking along and saying in a really cheerful voice 'it's going to be fine, you're going to have a lovely time, don't be scared'.
