Supporting mums with a positive approach to children being happy settling into the school day
Its heartbreaking seeing your child distraught, especially when you have to leave them in someone else's care. Some kids put on a show for their mother as they don't want them to leave and then are fine. Others just can't seem to settle and so its a positive step forward to work with the child to equip them with extra skills that might help them feel safer and happier in new environments and how to understand and handle their emotions.
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What to Do When Your Child Hates School: How to see your child off to school with a smile again
The Invisible String
Recommended and adopted by parenting blogs, bereavement support groups, hospice centers, foster care and social service agencies, military library services, church groups, and educators, The Invisible String offers a very simple approach to overcoming loneliness, separation, or loss with an imaginative twist that children easily understand and embrace, and delivers a particularly compelling message in today’s uncertain times.
My Hidden Chimp
Professor Steve Peters explains neuroscience in a straightforward and intuitive way – offering up 10 simple habits that we as adults and children should have in our arsenal to deal with everyday life.
They include:
– Smiling
– The importance of talking through your feelings
– Learning how to say sorry
– Knowing how to ask for help
By also explaining the developing ‘chimp’ brain in children, he shows us how 10 habits can help children to understand and manage their emotions and behaviour. These 10 habits should and can be retained for life.
How are you feeling today?
We all experience emotions and emotions are absolutely fine as long as we know what to do with them. Feelings arrive effortlessly enough but deciding what to do with them when they turn isn’t so easy – especially when you are a child. Cue: this book! It provides children with several straightforward, entertaining and appropriate interactive ideas to help them deal with a selection of significant emotions. A great dip-in book where children can choose a feeling that relates to them and then turn to the page that provides child-friendly strategies for dealing with that feeling. Helpful parent notes at the back of the book provide more ideas for parents to use with their child and other strategies to try out together and practice the all important skill of dealing with feelings.
Have You Filled a Bucket Today?
encourages positive behaviour by using the concrete concept of an ‘invisible bucket’ that holds your good thoughts and feelings. When you do something kind, you fill someone’s bucket; when you do something mean, you dip into someone’s bucket and remove some good thoughts and feelings. This book focuses on how our social interactions positively or negatively affect others and encourages all to be kind.
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