Time to relax

Children are overcoming behavioural or learning difficulties under therapies offered by a practitioner whose interest was first sparked as a nursery nurse. Judith Napier reports Pauline Gerrard knows exactly what it feels like to be helpless in the face of professionals who insist there is nothing wrong with a clearly unhappy child. Her own daughter suffered stress and anxiety as she tried to respond to a teacher's sharp advice to 'pull her socks up'.