Category: Parenting Guides

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…

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…

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…

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…

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….

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

This free printable PDF explains what emotional regulation is in children and young people in a clear, simple, and supportive way. It helps adults understand how children notice, experience, and…

When I Come Home From School, Please Know This is a free printable PDF poster that explores one common reason why some children and young people struggle after the school…

Why Calm Adults Matter is a free printable PDF poster that explains how adult behaviour affects children’s emotions, behaviour and sense of safety. It shows how children look to adults…

This trauma awareness poster is designed for parents, carers, teachers, social workers, and other professionals working with children and young people who display challenging or repeated behaviour. It supports trauma-informed…

This clear and reassuring poster explains common skills that children and young people cannot do yet when they are overwhelmed, upset, tired or stressed. It helps adults understand that emotional…

Words That Help Calm a Child’s Emotional Brain is a free printable PDF resource designed to support children when emotions feel overwhelming. It focuses on the power of calm, regulating…

“Strengthening Families Program: Handouts & Worksheets” is a comprehensive resource that supports the Strengthening Families Program for children aged 7-17. The program aims to enhance family relationships and develop essential…

Social Emotional Learning – HONESTY for Kids | EQ Skills Why is it important to tell the truth? Help kids build important emotional intelligence skills with this delightful video about…

A Parent and Carer’s Resource: Supporting Your LGBTQ+ Child” is a helpful guide developed by Cara-Friend to assist parents and carers in supporting their child or young person who questions…

“Sensory Processing and Self-Regulation: How to Help Your Child” is a helpful parents’ booklet that offers practical guidance for understanding and supporting children with sensory processing difficulties. The booklet covers…

Be Safe with Dogs: A Guide for Families” is a helpful booklet that aims to empower families with the knowledge and skills needed to ensure a safe and enjoyable experience…

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…

Why Children Push Away the Adults They Need Most is a free printable PDF that helps adults understand why children, young people and teenagers sometimes reject comfort, act rude, become…

This free printable poster, What Happens in a Child’s Brain During a Meltdown?, is a clear and engaging psychoeducation resource that explains what happens in a child’s brain during emotional…

Blocked care is a stress response that can affect parents and carers when emotional and physical demands become overwhelming over time. It happens when the nervous system is overloaded and…

Support That Hurts vs Support That Helps is a clear, trauma-informed poster designed to help adults better understand children’s behaviour during emotional distress. It explains why punishment and control increase…

This free printable PDF helps adults understand how everyday language can affect children’s emotions, behaviour, and sense of safety. The resource shows how common phrases such as “calm down”, “stop…