Resilience for Kids Pack

Real children need real experiences with real people to grow up happy, healthy, strong, kind and resilient. This pack offers lots of straightforward tips for parents ranging from practical suggestions for encouraging plenty of play and tips for setting boundaries through to strategies for managing stress.

The Resilience for Kids Pack includes:

Raising a Secure Child How Circle of Security Parenting Can Help You Nurture Your Child’s Attachment, Emotional Resilience, and Freedom to Explore – Today’s parents are constantly pressured to be perfect. But in striving to do everything right, we risk missing what children really need for lifelong emotional security. Now the simple, powerful “Circle of Security” parenting strategies that Kent Hoffman, Glen Cooper, and Bert Powell have taught thousands of families are available in self-help form for the first time. You will learn: *How to balance nurturing and protectiveness with promoting your child’s independence. *What emotional needs a toddler or older child may be expressing through difficult behaviour. *How your own upbringing affects your parenting style–and what you can do about it. Filled with vivid stories and unique practical tools, this book puts the keys to healthy attachment within everyone’s reach–self-understanding, flexibility, and the willingness to make and learn from mistakes. Self-assessment checklists can be downloaded and printed for ease of use.

Building Children’s Resilience One Building Block at a Time – Every parent wants their child to grow up happy, healthy, strong, kind and resilient. This pocket book aims to guide parents in their everyday decision-making to raise kids who are just that.

Real Kids in an Unreal World 2e Resilience and self-esteem in today’s children – The second edition of this popular book explores the 10 essential building blocks that help children build resilience and self-esteem in our chaotic, uncertain world. We can’t change the world, however we can help our children to develop emotional buoyancy and competence by experiencing life’s joys and successes, as well as its challenges and setbacks. When this is done within the safety of supportive relationships — especially in families and communities — one building block at a time from birth to 12, children can grow into being the capable, independent adults we all yearn to meet one day. ** Praise for Real Kids…** “‘Real Kids in an Unreal World’ is a gem of wisdom, plain and simple. The book would appear to have been published from the ‘tree of knowledge’ and is a very good guidebook to keeping kids normal in today’s fast paced world. — Mamamia.com.au  **

Healthy Mindsets for Little Kids: A Resilience Programme to Help Children Aged 5-9 with Anger, Anxiety, Attachment, Body Image, Conflict, Discipline, Empathy and Self-Esteem – This flexible, early-intervention programme utilises hands-on activities and worksheets to address behaviour issues and teach core resilience skills in children aged 5-9. Based around ten guided modules, each with their own animal character, the ‘Healthy Mindsets’ approach helps adults to assist children in building resilience across a wide variety of themes including attachment, discipline, anger management, conflict resolution, positive body image and self-esteem, grief and loss, and anxiety. Every session comes with a complete plan from greeting to closing down, and includes illustrations, photocopiable activities, worksheets, games, colouring-in sheets, and reflective content for children to think about their own views on the issue addressed in each section.With fun, interactive and non-threatening sessions, this comprehensive resource is an ideal programme for parents, teachers, counsellors, therapists and social workers wanting to work with children and help them gain crucial life skills from an early age. Stephanie Azri is a clinical social worker from Brisbane, Australia. She has over 10 years’ experience teaching resilience skills and addressing early symptoms of depression, anxiety and mental health issues in children and young people.