Parenting Support
Back to Basics
"Empowering Parents/Carers to support their children's wellbeing"
Empowering parents and carers to support their child’s emotional wellbeing within the home
Looking after your family's wellbeing is very important. Families all need some help from time to time due to life changes or events.
As a parent or carer, you can take small steps to help your child's wellbeing as well as your own. You can do this by starting with the basics.
Using the back to basics approach can empower you to take control of the 5 Ways to Wellbeing.
Consider one area at a time. Think about your home environment and what small changes you can make together as a family.
Think of it as building the foundations of a house, making sure your family has all the basics in place such as:
- Healthy eating
- Sleep
- Exercise
- Good routines
- Looking after yourselves and your child's wellbeing
If foundations are not in place, there is a risk of cracks appearing.
Please click on the links below to find out more about each of the petals:
Take Notice
Give
Be Active
Keep Learning
Connect
Bereavement Support
Simon Says - Bereavement Support for Hampshire's Children and Young People
Simon Says supports Hampshire's children and young people, up to the age of 18 years, who have a significant person in their life who has died or is dying. Simon Says aims to offer information and advice, runs a telephone support line, hosts monthly age appropriate support groups, and offers the opportunity to meet other families who have also been bereaved.
Website: https://www.simonsays.org.uk/
Telephone Support Line: 023 8064 7550
Simon Says - Recommended Book List
Ways to Support Bereaved Children at Primary School
Winstons Wish - Helping children, teenagers and young adults through grief
Winston’s Wish is a charity that helps children, teenagers and young adults (up to the age of 25) find their feet when their worlds are turned upside down by grief.
Through information, on-demand services, bereavement support and counselling, Winstons Wish aims to support young people across the UK to understand their feelings, process their grief and find ways to move forward with hope for a brighter future. They also help the adults who are caring for young grieving people including parents, school staff and healthcare professionals.
Their website offers a range of information, tailored to Young People, Parents or Carers, Schools, and Professionals.
Website: https://www.winstonswish.org/
Telephone (8am-8pm, Monday-Friday): 08088 020 021
Email: ask@winstonswish.org
Childhood Bereavement Network
The Childhood Bereavement Network (CBN) is a specialist membership organisation, working together to support bereaved children and young people. CBN focuses predominantly on helping those who are supporting bereaved children and young people.
Website: https://childhoodbereavementnetwork.org.uk/
Grief Encounter - Supporting Bereaved Children and Young People
Grief Encounter's mission is to give every child and young person access to the best possible support following the death of someone close. They work closely with individuals, families, schools and professionals to offer a way through the anxiety, fear and isolation so often caused by grief. Grief Encounter's services include one-to-one counselling, group workshops, music, art and drama therapy, and more.
Website: https://www.griefencounter.org.uk/
Telephone Helpline (9am-9pm, Monday-Friday): 0808 802 0111
Email: grieftalk@griefencounter.org.uk
Podcast: Helping Children Smile Again with Amanda Seyderhelm
Whether it's the grief of bereavement, the strain of divorce or the uncertainty of a new home or school, loss and change affect children in countless ways. Teachers and parents frequently find themselves ill-equipped to help children struggling with the difficult feelings that these situations, and others like them, bring. Helping Children Smile Again offers guided support for teachers, health professionals and parents through interviews with experts in the fields of education, healthcare and parenting.
Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5YxmCnkQ5IgVIhdG3hjm5
Child Bereavement UK
Child Bereavement UK helps families to rebuild their lives when a child grieves or when a child dies. They support children and young people (up to the age of 25) when someone important to them has died or is not expected to live, and parents and the wider family when a baby or child of any age dies or is dying. They offer free, confidential bereavement support for individuals, couples, children, young people, and families, by telephone, video or instant messenger, wherever you live in the UK.
Website: https://www.childbereavementuk.org/
Telephone Helpline: 0800 02 888 40
Place2Be
- have put together Parenting Smart Articles - wonderful resources for parents and carers that cover just about every topic you can think of.
Click on the link below to access the articles and videos.
https://parentingsmart.place2be.org.uk/
Parent support pack
Domestic Abuse
If you are worried about someone finding out you are looking at domestic abuse information, Women’s Aid have a safety guide
Benefits, Debt, Money and Work
Helps people who are struggling to afford their energy bills or top up their prepayment meter. They provide information and advice about certain benefits, grants and help offered by the government and energy suppliers.
CAP (Christians Against Poverty)
Debt counselling and community groups on managing money and debt.
Tel: 0800 328 0006
Offers information about debt and benefits.
Utility Bills
Provides up to date independent information with help and advice on reducing fuel costs
Works with Hampshire County Council to provide free advice services to council, private and housing association tenants, and homeowners, to help people keep warm and healthy in their homes
Winter Workout Gas Saving Tips
A free service that helps people who are in, or are at risk of falling into fuel poverty, to reduce their energy bills.
Tel: 0800 0607567
Might be able to offer help for energy saving improvements to people’s homes if they claim certain benefits and live in private housing (e.g. home owner, rental from private landlord) or live in social housing.
Housing
Provide information about housing, evictions and homelessness, and update their guidance regularly in response to changes made by the government during Covid-19. You can find out more about what you’re entitled to and the latest changes here england.shelter.org.uk/housing_advice/coronavirus.
Provide guidance about housing, renting, evictions, arrears and possession orders, as well as offering help through the local citizens advice service.
For information about housing costs, rent repayments and other residential issues, contact your housing provider or look at the help provided by local housing services.
Primary Behaviour Service
Primary Behaviour Service have produced these, packed full of wonderful ideas, links and advice for parents.
Topics covered include:
- The basics: support with sleep, diet and exercise.
- Positive parenting strategies: advice about setting boundaries, creating routines, keeping calm, using rewards & consequences effectively, self-esteem, managing conflict and difficult times.
- Brain development: understanding needs and behaviours, ages and stages of brain growth and how thoughts can effect feelings.
- The function of play: developmental play, ideas for play activities, play activities to meet particular needs, therapeutic play ideas and how to use praise effectively.
- Managing change: how to support your child with change, why change can be difficult and how to help your child with transitions.
- Military families: strategies for home, strategies for school, key contacts and how to manage challenging behaviours.
- Communication: dealing with conflict, how to teach about feelings, supporting your child with their feelings and strategies to help to manage overwhelming feelings.
- General parenting tips: how to effectively use of language to create changes in behaviours.
- Information directory: links to support for a variety of mental and physical health conditions (parenting children with Autism, ADHD & anxiety and more), advice for different and difficult family situations, parental well-being as well as links to a variety of useful apps.
The pack has links to useful videos and downloadable resources, all designed to help make parenting a little easier.
PBS Parenting Support Pack January 2021 .pptx
Giving yourself time to calm down.pdf
Giving choices and consequences.pdf
Practise sheets to fill in and keep.pdf
Kindness Charts - It's easy to get into the habit of noticing only what's going wrong in the family, the things that annoy us, the times children try our patience. The children do it too – telling us when their brother or sister or friend has done something they feel upset about but not when someone has been kind to them or they've been having fun. It can be hard for all of us to remember to spot the everyday kind and helpful things, rather than taking them for granted. Here's a way of making this easier. Have a simple, colourful kindness chart. Whenever anyone spots someone else doing something kind or helpful, the person being kind is invited to add to the chart
