Children's Mental And Emotional Wellbeing: An Interview With Olivia West

Podcast: What The Nanny Heard · Charlotte Goodship-Hoyle, Charlotte Pyke, Millie Morris.

Opublikowano: 2026-10-13

Charlotte, Charlie and Millie chat with Olivia West about children’s mental health and emotional wellbeing. With a father who was a social worker, Olivia went on to study, amongst other things, child psychology, childhood depression and children’s emotional development. We discuss the importance of naming emotions, teaching empathy and modelling healthy emotional behaviour, and how Nannies can support children’s emotional development while remaining firm but fair. Olivia also explores the value of natural consequences and why talking things through with a child after a meltdown, once they are ca...