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Making Kindness a Family Affair…
In light of Random Acts of Kindness Day on February 17, we wanted to ask our children’s writer Brandy Browne about how families can practice kindness together - here is her response along with a few book recommendations. Teaching your children to be kind to...
Lily-Jo’s Top 5 Tips for Finding a Counsellor
Hello - Lily-Jo here! Last week I celebrated a whole decade of being a qualified counsellor. 10 years on, and I still believe the core conditions of counselling work: Empathy Congruence Unconditional Positive Regard Counselling for me is more like a way of being,...
Fear of Becoming Sick: 5 Practical Tips for Managing Health Anxiety
Health anxiety has become even more prevalent and persistent in the last twelve months. It used to be that perhaps only a few people might find themselves obsessively worrying about a headache they suspected to be a brain tumor, but since the start of Covid-19, more...
Time to Talk…Practical Ways to Facilitate Conversations with Your Children
Are you tired of having to wonder what is going on in your child’s head? Tired of “Nothing” or “I don’t know” when you ask them what happened at school or how they feel about something? With children, it’s not about the question you ask, but rather HOW you ask...
Let’s Talk about our Feelings: Building Emotional Intelligence in our Children
As the hashtag #endthestigma circulated social media in recent years, a conversation torpedoed into a wonderful movement within the children of the world. What if children were not taught to bury their feelings, but rather to acknowledge and even celebrate them, both...
15 Songs for Self-Expression – Raising Awareness for Place2Be and Children’s Mental Health Week 2021
This week (February 1-7) we’re supporting Children’s Mental Health Week, sponsored by UK-based children’s mental health charity Place2Be. This year’s theme is: “Express Yourself”. From the Place2Be campaign website, we learn that “expressing yourself is about finding...
Planning Ahead for Your Classroom: Get Your Free 2021 Mental Health Awareness Day Calendar
Teachers and youth workers! To help you plan ahead and make mental health a priority in your classroom this year, we’ve created a helpful calendar with all the important dates like: World Mental Health Day Stress Awareness Week and Children’s Mental Health Week If you...
The Rise of Pandemic Play…How to Help Your Child Process a Pandemic with Imaginary Play
As months of social distancing, mask-wearing, and COVID safety protocols have worn on, you may have noticed oddities in your child’s pretend play. First, you begin finding your child’s dolls with makeshift masks on. Maybe your child obsessively pretends to take the...
5 Toxic New Year Narratives and How to Ignore Them
If you or anyone you love is experiencing symptoms associated with COVID-19 please self-isolate and if your symptoms are causing you worry please call NHS 111. 2020 is finally over! We thought it would never happen. We don’t know if we’ve ever approached a new...
Bearing the COVID Burden: Lightening the Load for our Children
A brief note from the editor. In 2014, I had the pleasure of meeting Brandy Browne back in the States when I was a teacher at a local dance studio. Brandy’s daughter, Grace, was in my class and I’ve followed her story on social media ever since - always shocked at her...
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