Coming up on Happy Mom Happy Baby parenting SOS

People often don't realize just how much anxiety that brings up at a time when the brain is particularly ill-equipped to cope with it. It's that moment where you get an idea

that your child is doing things and they're keeping them secret for you. It can be really, really tough.

What they just need is being listened to being supported being understood and

having a confrontation with my mad dad about the fact that they're feeling low

you know is the last thing that they need. Hello, welcome back to Happy Mom, Happy Baby. This week we have a bonus episode brought to you from

Booper. Booper has set us up with the amazing Sam Woss. Sam is a professor of

child psychology at the University of East London and needs the research unit to the baby

Dev Lab.

You may have seen Sam on the Channel 4 show The Secret Life of 4 and 5 year olds, where he appears

as an expert commentator on child development issues.

Sam is working with Bupa to help parents spot the signs of mental health conditions, helping

parents and carers to open up conversations about mental health with their children or other young people in their lives.

And it is such an important topic.

It's been reported in the last three years

the likelihood of young people having a mental health problem has increased by 50 percent.

And 50 percent of all mental health problems start by the age of 14.

Facts that have blown my mind.

And the following from a survey run by Bupa,

80% of parents say their child does not open up to them

about their mental health,

and 76% of parents say they would not feel confident

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