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How to Co-Regulate with a Child Information Poster

This free How to Co Regulate with a Child PDF offers a simple one page guide that helps adults support a child, young person or teenager during emotional overwhelm. The…

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Discipline vs Punishment Child Behaviour Strategies – Free Printable PDF Poster

This discipline vs punishment printable PDF is a clear and practical behaviour support resource that helps adults understand how to respond to children’s behaviour in a more effective and supportive…

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How to Stop Yelling at Your Kids – Worksheet Collection

This comprehensive worksheet collection from Choosing Therapy is designed to help parents manage their emotions, reduce yelling, and create a more positive, peaceful family environment. Yelling can often feel like…

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Understanding Autistic Meltdowns – Free Printable PDF Poster

This printable PDF is a clear, practical autism support resource that helps parents, carers, teachers and professionals understand autistic meltdowns in children, young people and teenagers. It explains that a…

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Behaviour Lens versus Connection Lens – Trauma Informed Behaviour Support Poster

This free printable PDF poster helps adults understand children’s behaviour through a trauma informed and attachment focused lens. It supports positive behaviour management for children, young people and teenagers, especially…

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Why Rewards and Punishments Do Not Always Fix Behaviour – Child Behaviour Poster

Why Rewards and Punishments Do Not Always Fix Behaviour is a free, trauma informed child behaviour poster that explains why reward and punishment based behaviour management often fails to create…

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Why Saying “They Are Just Shy” Is Not Helpful – Poster

This free printable PDF explains why describing a child as “just shy” can be unhelpful and how this language can shape a child’s self-belief, confidence, and behaviour over time. It…

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The Difference Between PDA and ODD – Poster Information Guide PDF

This free printable PDF, The Difference Between PDA and ODD, is a clear comparison guide that explains the difference between Pathological Demand Avoidance and Oppositional Defiant Disorder in children and…

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Connection Before Correction: Explanation Poster for Parents

This free Connection Before Correction printable PDF poster is a clear and practical behaviour support resource for parents and professionals working with children and young people. It explains how emotional…

Never Say This to a Child Free Printable PDF Poster
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Never Say This to a Child – Free Printable PDF Poster

Never Say This to a Child is a free printable PDF poster created to help adults understand how harmful language impacts children’s emotional wellbeing, behaviour, and long term self belief….

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Free PDF Neurodiversity Posters | Information Sheets

Sensory Break Ideas Poster  This attached resource is a clear and practical sensory break ideas poster designed to support children who need help to regulate their emotions and behaviour. It…

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The Masking Iceberg (Children) – Free Printable PDF

This visual poster explains the concept of masking in children, showing the clear difference between what adults see on the outside and what a child may be experiencing underneath. It…

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Free Children’s Trauma Responses Wheel – Fight, Flight, Freeze, Fawn Behaviour Poster Printable PDF

This free printable PDF is a clear, trauma-informed visual tool that helps adults understand children’s behaviour through the lens of survival responses. The wheel explains the four common trauma responses…

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Bonding Games for Parents, Carers and Children PDF Guide

This free Bonding Games for Parents, Carers and Children printable PDF is a practical attachment resource created to strengthen parent-child relationships through safe, playful connection. It supports bonding, trust building…

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What Is PDA? Information Guide Poster

This free printable What Is PDA? guide and poster clearly explains Pathological Demand Avoidance in autistic children and young people. It helps adults understand that PDA is anxiety driven and…

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How Adults Repair Relationships with Children – Poster

This free downloadable PDF explains how adults repair relationships with children after difficult moments. It focuses on what children experience emotionally when adults raise their voice, misunderstand, or react too…

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Why a Child’s Behaviour Often Gets Worse Before It Gets Better – Poster

This printable poster explains a common but often misunderstood pattern in child behaviour change. It shows why behaviour can temporarily worsen when adults change how they respond, even when the…

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What a child needs before their behaviour can change – Poster

This free printable PDF poster explains what children need before their behaviour can change. It is based on a clear, child-centred understanding of emotional development, regulation and behaviour. The poster…

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Time Blindness in Children Poster: Signs, Support Strategies and School Help

This clear and easy-to-understand time blindness in children poster explains why some children struggle with time awareness, time management, and planning. It describes common signs such as being late, losing…

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Developmental Language Disorder (DLD): Free Printable PDF Guide Poster

This free printable PDF explains Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) in a clear and practical way. It helps adults understand how DLD affects how children understand spoken language and express their…

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How to Be a More Involved Dad PDF for Families

Everyday family routines, from arriving home after work to helping with homework, are used here to show fathers how small, steady changes can make them more present in their children’s…

Why Children Stop Listening Parenting Poster for Parents
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Why Children Stop Listening Parenting Poster for Parents

Parents and carers can use the poster as a quick reminder of what to do when a child stops listening, argues back, shuts down or struggles to follow instructions. It…

Keeping My Body Safe from Abuse and Neglect Children's Guide
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Keeping My Body Safe from Abuse and Neglect: Children’s Guide

This guide is designed to educate children on the critical subjects of abuse and neglect, empowering them with the knowledge to recognise and respond to unsafe situations. This guide covers…

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Oppositional Defiant Disorder – ODD: Free PDF Guide

This free Oppositional Defiant Disorder – ODD poster is a clear, easy to understand visual guide for parents and professionals supporting children and young people with persistent defiant and challenging…