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'Know Yourself Grow Yourself' was Place2Be's Children's Mental Health Week's theme reinforcing the importance of self-awareness in children's mental wellbeing. Here are three evidence-based strategies that encourage self-discovery and emotional awareness – and build all-important connection and resilience.
Understanding temperament is a game changer in parenting
Setting up for success through transitions and change
3 strategies to help your children process their grief
Five steps to support yourself through your divorce and be present for your kids
Divorce can feel challenging and overwhelming. It's hard to know where to begin. Here is one question that you can ask yourself as you embark on your co-parenting journey that will help give you clarity, confidence and compassion.
We're experiencing an epidemic of teen health health. Over the last 14 years, we've watch as our kids have become more anxious, more depressed and lonelier. Jonathan Haidt, in his groundbreaking book, The Anxious Generation lays our the causality between this devastating decline in mental health and the twin dynamics of the adoption of smartphones by our teens and the end of the play-based childhood. Combined with a shift away from ' community' we are experiencing a phenonmen that we must reverse.
How to set screen limits while strengthening your connection with your kids.
5 simple-to-follow strategies and scripts to help your children cooperate, the first time
Parenting is a long game played out in the countless tiny interactions we have with our kids every single day. It’s tough to remember when we’re in the thick of it that we’re raising adults. We hope they’ll be resilient, content, kind and independent with strong self-belief and self-awareness, feeling valued, respected, treasured, and purposeful, but how do we get from here to there? It's all about what we do and say in our tiny daily interactions. Here are just a few of the small things that make a difference