Parent support pack

The Primary Behaviour Service have produced these, packed full of wonderful ideas, links and advice for parents.

Topics covered include:

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• 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.