Press
Karen and Georgia in the Press
Thinking Positive
The Source, UK Youth – March 2010
The first in a series of articles on UK Youth’s Centenary Ambassadors – all committed to promoting the ‘positive about youth’ message in their own fields – begins with Karen Doherty
Agony Aunts to the Rescue
The Lady Magazine – 22 December, 2009
Writers Karen Doherty and Georgia Coleridge have been friends for years. They agree about most things, apart from Christmas. Karen loves it; Georgia dreads it. Here they advise on some Christmas worries.
Parent Power
YOU magazine – Mail on Sunday, 20 April, 2008
by Caroline Phillips
We’re natural cheerleaders, but we’ve had to learn COMMANDO TACTICS.
With eight children between them, Georgia Coleridge and Karen Doherty have experienced every family peak and pitfall possible. And now they’ve condensed their knowledge in a new book that divides the parenting world into seven distinct types.
Parental Guidance
Publishing News, 30 November 2007
Promoted as the Trinny and Susannah of parenting, Karen Doherty and Georgia Coleridge explain the genesis of their new book on coping with kids.
We met when our children were at nursery school and we became friends when they started getting into all sorts of trouble: they flooded the school bathroom, they threw sand at other toddlers, and they even escaped from our communal gardens through a gap in the railings…
Driving Passions
House and Garden, May 2008
Social arbiter and people watcher Mary Killen analyses people’s relationship with their cars. This month, she talks to authors Karen Doherty and Georgia Coleridge about the family-friendly Honda FR-V
Mother courage
The Hill, June 2008
W11’s Karen Doherty and Georgia Coleridge have just published a book on bringing up children. Here they explain how it all came about.
We met met we both moved onto a communal garden in Notting Hill, and we became firm friends when we banded together to install a playground. Our children were busy breaking all the garden rules by hiding in the shrubs, climbing trees and playing ball games. The ramshackle splintery slide wasn’t enough to keep them, or the other 30 children who lived on the garden, out of trouble. So we took it upon ourselves to solve the problem.
Cheerleader or Commando: What type of parent are you?
YOU magazine – Mail on Sunday On Line, 19 April, 2008
by Caroline Phillips
I’m sitting at a kitchen table in West London’s Notting Hill talking to the two parenting gurus of the moment.
Their children – a total of eight between them – are at school, but there are bikes and scooters in the hallway, two fish tanks on a worktop, and the fridge is covered in magnetic letters, like a hundred thousand other family kitchens around the UK.
It’s the home of Karen Doherty, and this table is where she and Georgia Coleridge have spent the past five years writing their book Seven Secrets of Successful Parenting. Karen, 44, and Georgia, 42, became friends through their offspring.
Modern mums teach manners!
The Sun – Woman, 2 May, 2008
By Sophie Mansell
“IT’S not ‘I want’, it’s ‘Please may I have…?”
Remember that from your childhood?
Well it’s time to take a refresher course because the old-fashioned manners your mum taught you are back in vogue. [...]
Karen Doherty and Georgia Coleridge, authors of Seven Secrets Of Successful Parenting have some good behaviour tips too…
Mothers in arms
Easy Living, June 2008
By Andrew Hayes-Watkins
With four children each, Karen Doherty and Georgia Coleridge decided to ask every mother they knew for their secrets. The result is a no-nonsense guide to running a family – whatever your personality…
Urban Fix
ES Magazine – The Evening Standard, 2 May, 2008
Edited by Andy Barker
The busy dad of Poppy Honey and Daisy Boo can pick up tips in Seven Secrets of Successful Parenting…
Monitor – Glam Reads
Glamour, June 2008
By Shauna Bartlett
If you have (or want) children and feel your parenting skills could do with a makeover, this practical, advice-packed book is just the ticket. A mixture of anecdotes and tips, the advice is garnered
from interviews with hundreds of parents and professionals and covers every angle, from tantrums to teething, bedtime to bullying.
Let your children off the leash this summer
Extract from Country Life, 25 June, 2008
by Clive Aslet
Photo by Brian Moody
[...] As the co-author (with Karen Doherty) of the newly published Seven Secrets of Successful Parenting (Bantam Press), Georgia Coleridge should know something about filling school holidays. ‘The best thing they’ve done recently,’ she says of her four children, aged from nine to 17, ‘is build a tree house. They wedged a lot of wooden pallets in the branches, set up pulleys and got a whole lot of camouflage netting from an army surplus shop; it’s surprisingly cheap. It took a long time and is thrillingly dangerous because it is a all rather wonky.’ [...]
Childcare & Nursery News
Angels & Urchins, Spring 2008
The Trinny and Susannah of modern-day parenting, Karen Doherty and Georgia Coleridge have come up with seven types of parenting. Their book teaches parents to identify their own natural style of parenting and to borrow techniques from other types.
Practical parenting
Cotswold Life, July 2008
By Katie Jarvis
Photography by Mark Fairhurst
Katie Jarvis meets the women who know just what to do when your child refuses to put his shoes on in the morning.
“I don’t believe it!” says Georgia Coleridge, looking at her friend and co-author Karen Doherty in surprise. “We’re wearing the same top!” It’s true. Though the styles are different, the rather fetching swirly pink pattern is identical. They may have come from houses 100 miles apart – one in the Cotswolds and one in London – and they may have completely different backgrounds (Karen was brought up in California while Georgia epitomises Englishness); but there’s no doubt these two friends think in similar fashion. And not just when choosing what to wear.
For their approach to the rigours of family life is so similar that the two of them got together to write a book: Seven Secrets of Successful Parenting (or how to achieve the almost impossible).
Harness power and persuasion
Prep School (IAPS Conference Edition), September 2009
The year ahead will be a difficult year for school Heads. As the financial thumbscrews of the recession clamp down on families, parents are becoming even more demanding: they want to justify the sacrifice they’re making for their child’s education and proof that it’s worth every penny.
Stressed parents are certainly more unreasonable. According to the Daily Telegraph, there has been a dramatic increase in the number of solicitors specialising in education law, who will side with disgruntled parents and ‘blow a hole in the arguments of the educational establishment’.
What kind of parent are you?
Yorkshire Post, May 2008
by Catherine Scott
A new book hopes to make life easier for every parent. Catherine Scott spoke to Karen Doherty and Georgia Coleridge about how they discovered the Seven Secrets of Successful Parenting.
Between them Karen Doherty and Georgia Coleridge have eight children and they had a lot to learn.
“We weren’t the only parents who were struggling: some of our friends were shattered from years of sleepless nights. Others were worrying because their children hated school and plenty more were panicking because their children refused to eat anything except junk food,” says Karen.
So they read endless parenting books.
