Category: Parenting Guides
A Parent and Carer’s Resource: Supporting Your LGBTQ+ Child
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: Parents’ booklet
“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
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…
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…
Why Children Push Away the Adults They Need Most – Free PDF Poster
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…
Selective Mutism in Children: When a Child Can Talk but Does Not Speak in Certain Situations PDF Poster
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….
Processing Speed Difficulties in Children Free Printable PDF
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 Poster
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…
What Happens in a Child’s Brain During a Meltdown? Poster
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…
What Is Blocked Care? Poster
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 Poster
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…
PACE Approach for Trauma and Attachment – Poster
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…
Unmet Children’s Needs Checklist Poster Guide
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 Poster Guide
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…
Does Your Child Forget What You Just Said? Working Memory Difficulties Explained – Poster Guide
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…
When You Say – What I Hear Poster
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…
Family Meeting Parents’ Guide & Templates
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…
Parents’ Guide: Youth Violence, Knife crime & Gangs
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,…
How to talk to your child about knives (a parents’ guide)
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…
Alternatives to smacking, physical/corporal punishment (booklets)
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…
Free Posters to Support Children’s Emotional Wellbeing
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…
Attention-Seeking Iceberg: Poster Free PDF Printable
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…
Free The Everything Parent’s Guide to Children with Executive Functioning Disorder – PDF Download
Parents can keep the PDF to hand when planning home routines, preparing for school meetings or choosing strategies for a child who struggles with organisation, attention, time management and follow-through….
Mindfulness, relaxation & yoga videos for kids
‘Cosmic Kids Yoga’ channel on YouTube The ‘Cosmic Kids Yoga’ channel on YouTube offers over 100 videos designed to engage kids in yoga, mindfulness, and relaxation activities. These interactive adventures…
Parenting Children/Young People with Developmental Trauma (booklet)
The “Parenting Children/Young People with Developmental Trauma” booklet is a valuable resource specifically designed for parents and carers of children who have experienced developmental trauma. This booklet aims to provide…
Theraplay activities booklet
The “Theraplay activities” resource is a valuable booklet that provides a helpful list of Theraplay activities specifically designed to enhance parent-child attachment. Based on the Principles of Theraplay, these activities…
It’s not okay to shake babies: info sheet for parents
“It’s not okay to shake babies” is an informative and essential resource for parents and caregivers, raising awareness about the dangers of shaking infants. This information sheet highlights the severe…
Developmental trauma – easy read explanation guides for carers, older children & schools
The Developmental Trauma Easy Read Explanation Guides are invaluable resources designed to provide clear and concise information about developmental trauma to carers, older children, and schools. These guides aim to…
Parenting in Pictures guides – babies, children & teens, pregnancy, food & nutrition
The “Parenting in Pictures guides” is a valuable online resource offering practical assistance for parents and caregivers across various age groups. These illustrated guides provide step-by-step instructions for daily care…
Things Children Can’T Get From A Screen Poster
Print and display the poster in a family support room, classroom, therapy space or home setting as a gentle prompt for conversations about screen time, play and children’s everyday needs….