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 […]
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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
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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