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Children’s Activity: Calm Colouring
Colouring has multiple benefits, including; enhancing creativity, promoting well-being, stress relief, increasing a sense of mindfulness as well as providing a sense of achievement on completion. Colouring allows us to unwind and let our minds focus on just the task in front of us. So, we’re sharing a free nature colouring sheet for you to
Why children need to see adults role model
After years of working with children and their families, one of the key aspects of developing life skills that children require is watching their parents do the things that they are struggling with. Let’s look at some examples: Want children to step out of their comfort zone? Want children to develop stronger social skills? Want
Children’s Activity: Snowflake Breathing
Teaching children breathing activities has multiple benefits: Teaching children how to slowly engage breathing techniques and practice them regularly supports them to relax and respond more constructively when they are feeling overwhelmed. Snowflake Breathing Download here Next Steps Want to learn more? Would you like to deliver emotional literacy interventions in your work? Our Level 3
Online Safety – Where are the risks?
Online safety is an ongoing fear for many parents and professionals. How do we ensure that young people are kept safe from the risks that they cannot see? Further, because many of us grew up in a world where technology was not as fast growing, and do not use technology in the same ways, we
Children’s Activity: Puffer Fish Breathing
Teaching children breathing activities has multiple benefits: Teaching children how to slowly engage breathing techniques and practice them regularly supports them to relax and respond more constructively when they are feeling overwhelmed. Puffer Fish Breathing Download here Next Steps Want to learn more? Would you like to deliver emotional literacy interventions in your work? Our Level
ADHD and Lying
A frequent conversation that I have with parents in parent coaching sessions, is the challenge of navigating why their child with ADHD might be lying. Whilst all children can lie, for many reasons, including: ADHD and lying When a child with ADHD lies, it can come from different motivators and causations. Children with ADHD often
Children’s Activity: Searching for Glimmers
Glimmers are tiny, fleeting moments of joy and calm that happen within our days. When we experience a glimmer, we are experiencing a tiny micro-moment of happiness. A glimmer activates our parasympathetic nervous system, the part of our nervous system responsible for calmness and safety. Our brains are always trying to keep us safe, so
The Damage of the Silent Treatment
The silent treatment is a punishment that many have experienced in their lifetimes, but it has only been in recent years that we have begun to understand the impact of it on children’s brain development (and latter adult’s emotional experiences). The silent treatment refers to the refusal to speak to someone which moves from a
Children’s Activity: Starfish Breathing
Teaching children breathing activities has multiple benefits: Teaching children how to slowly engage breathing techniques and practice them regularly supports them to relax and respond more constructively when they are feeling overwhelmed. Starfish Breathing Download here Next Steps Want to learn more? Would you like to deliver emotional literacy interventions in your work? Our Level 3
Why do children upregulate?
Upregulation is a term used to describe when a child uses behaviours to bring parents or carers closer to them (also called proximity seeking or attachment seeking behaviours). They aim to raise an alert to parents that the child needs help, is feeling uncertain or stressed. Proximity seeking behaviours begin in infancy, when babies will
Children’s Activity: Sunflower Affirmations
When we are talking to ourselves, we are always giving ourselves instructions. Our brains are always listening, and this contributes to our internal belief systems. What we say to ourselves is important. So, using affirmations can be a great way to remind ourselves of our positive traits. Sunflower Affirmations Download it here Next steps Want
Why we cannot process hard things in the moment
When we experience anything which is very stressful or traumatic, we can find ourselves entering a state of shock or high stress, but be surprised when weeks or months (sometimes years) later we find ourselves, or our children re-living it the event as if it was yesterday, when we believed it was in the past
Children’s Activity: Self-esteem Exploration
Self-esteem refers to the value that we place on ourselves. This includes our self-worth and levels of self-respect and influences our thoughts, feelings and behaviours, as well as our emotional well-being. When our self-esteem is high we can find that we are more receptive to our connections with others, feel more satisfied in life and
Why we need to feel our feelings
This week, I have lost count of the number of conversations I have had about feelings, and the importance of feeling them and experiencing them. Your feelings are a communication system, telling you that you have needs that require some attention. If you are stressed you are overloaded, taking on too much, or trying to
Children’s Activity: Mandala Colouring
Colouring has multiple benefits, including; enhancing creativity, promoting well-being, stress relief, increasing a sense of mindfulness as well as providing a sense of achievement on completion. Colouring allows us to unwind and let our minds focus on just the task in front of us. So, we’re sharing a free nature colouring sheet for you to
Overthinking versus Catastrophising
Overthinking refers to thinking too much about something, or putting too much time into thinking about or analysing something in a way that is more harmful than helpful. Whilst catastrophising relates to the repetitive, negative thoughts that focus on the worst possible outcomes in a situation or seeing a situation as being much worse than
Children’s Activity: My Super Power
When a young person has self-esteem difficulties, it can be easy to become focused on ‘outcomes’. Grades, targets, effort scores, goals scored, test results etc, as a means to give them feedback. However, our self-esteem is our ability to recognise our worth, not out test results, so when we shift our feedback to characteristics we
Has tech made our friendships too intense?
Friendships are an interesting aspect of life for us to navigate. However, since technology, our friendships have adapted, but have they made us more anxious and intense in our friendships, and limited us from forming healthy connections? When we develop friendships, there are key stages that we normally process through: Research has shown that it
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