funkyangel
Claire Burdett is a writer and editor who specialises in parenting and family issues, women in business, business mums and work/life balance, ‘grown up’ city breaks and family travel, and food, drink and nutrition.
In the 1990s she was the editor of numerous bestselling titles, such as “Conception, Pregnancy and Birth” by Miriam Stoppard, as well as many other food and health titles for Dorling Kindersley, Good Housekeeping, Gower Medical Publishing, etc. Since her children were born she has worked as a writer and editor in marketing and magazine publishing, and is the author of three books. She is also a qualified and experienced nlp coach and runs her business from home so she can fit work around her two girls, Cecily and Felice.
She writes articles for a variety of consumer magazines and regularly edits company lifestyle magazines either in print and/or on flipping software online. She runs her own business, Funky Angel Ltd, proving information and support on the work/life balance to women in business and their families via The Business Midwife business coaching and The Funky Agency.
Please contact Claire on claire[at]funkyangel.co.uk.
Over the kitchen table: Notes from a business mum 
Dear Claire,
I did a PhD on Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT)
for children with cancer at Great Ormond’s Street Chidlren’s Hospital (GOSCH). Twelve years into my work, parents with healthy children are using the results of my PhD in the form of a web-based product to perform a simple set of tasks to help their children. In each case study that I have conducted, this has been found to be an empowering experience for both parents and children alike.
The question is how can I tell moms about this?
How it works. “Each Dr Jones’ cartoon Animal Agent teaches different
stress-management and coping skills. Children do not understand ‘how’ to relax on demand, but through playing with the web based cartoon Animal Agentz, they learn such techniques and can repeat them in stressful situations. The child will remember the actions and behaviors of “Bubbles” the fish, “Yo-Yo” the cat and the other Animal Agentz and use them when they need to remain calm”. As one mother said
“If you say to a child relax it means nothing to them but if you let your child play with the Animal Agentz “fish” (breathing skills) and then say to the child what did the fish do?
Then I found him acting out the fish skills and becoming relaxed”.
http://www.Animalagentz.com
You can see the relaxing fish at