Category: Parenting Guides

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…

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 clear and practical selective mutism poster helps parents, carers and professionals understand why some children can talk confidently at home but struggle to speak in school or around others….

This clear and practical printable PDF guide explains processing speed difficulties in children and how they can affect learning, behaviour and everyday functioning. It helps adults understand why some children…

The Parenting Stress Loop is a clear and practical printable PDF that helps explain how stress in parents and carers can affect children’s behaviour, emotions and overall wellbeing. This visual…

Sensory overload is presented through an iceberg model, showing the small signs people may notice on the outside and the much larger experience underneath. The poster explains that sensory overload…

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…

In a therapy room, school wellbeing space, foster home or parenting session, this printable anxious attachment guide can help adults explain why some children stay on high alert even when…

This free PACE poster is a clear, trauma-informed guide to supporting children and young people whose behaviour is driven by big emotions rather than deliberate choice. It is based on…

This free printable PDF is a simple and practical unmet needs checklist that helps adults understand what may be driving a child’s behaviour. It supports a more thoughtful approach by…

Praising Children in a Way That Helps Them Grow is a clear, visual PDF poster guide designed to help adults use praise more effectively with children. It explains why meaningful…

A colourful printable poster guide sets out working memory difficulties in short, visual sections, with the main information presented on one parent-friendly page and a second page giving website, social…

In everyday family support, after-school behaviour is a common topic for reflection and discussion, especially when children seem angry, tearful, rude, withdrawn or overwhelmed as soon as they get home….

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…

The “Try this instead” prompts are a useful part of the printable, giving adults simple words to use when a child is crying, overwhelmed or unable to calm down. It…

The Family Meeting Parents’ Guide & Templates is a valuable resource for social workers working with families. It provides practical information, step-by-step instructions, and templates to support parents and carers…

The Parents’ Guide: Youth Violence, Knife Crime & Gangs supports parents in addressing concerning issues such as youth violence, knife crime, and gang involvement. The resource provides practical advice, facts,…

The “How to Talk to Your Child about Knives” guide is a practical and informative leaflet designed to provide parents and caregivers with valuable advice on reducing the likelihood of…

The “try this instead” prompts give adults simple replacement phrases for moments when a child refuses, delays, negotiates, ignores instructions or becomes upset over everyday demands. It frames behaviour often…

Alternatives to Smacking & Best Immediate Actions When You Feel Like Losing Control Leaflet Our free printable guide “Alternatives to Smacking” provides parents and carers with safe, practical and positive…

Support for calmer, safer family interactions is at the centre of the NVR Ireland Parent Handbook, especially where parents and carers are facing aggression, conflict, controlling behaviour or repeated escalation…

Kind Words to Say When We Say Goodbye to Our Children Poster These free printable guide is designed to help parents support children’s emotional wellbeing in everyday situations. The posters…

This printable PDF uses a clear iceberg model to explain what is often described as “attention-seeking behaviour” in children, and reframes it as a need for connection, emotional safety and…