
5 Ways to Wellbeing | Jamie Douglas
Explore the benefits of the ‘5 Ways to Wellbeing’, an easy model designed to help us frame how to look after ourselves and our children.
Calming Down
Practical support to reduce distressed behaviour.
Our Calming Down collection unpicks the reasons behind your child’s angry outbursts and helps you find simple strategies. You’ll find a range of ideas your child can use to get in control of big emotions before they feel overwhelmed.
From toddlers to teens, find the support and practical ideas you need – with more helpful resources added all the time.
Calming down strategies & support
Reduce angry & aggressive reactions
Understand behaviour as communication
The Calming Down Collection
Explore the benefits of the ‘5 Ways to Wellbeing’, an easy model designed to help us frame how to look after ourselves and our children.
Author Georgina Durrant explains why play is a great way to help your child calm down and understand their emotions.
Helly explains how the free My Family Journal app can help you understand your child’s behaviour.
Ways to develop your child’s emotional vocabulary and why this is important to best support them.
Find out how to help your child understand and manage emotions when they experience unexpected changes.
Use our simple plan to help you understand your child’s behaviour and find the triggers behind it
Explore why your teen feels agitated and strategies you can use to help them calm down safely
Nina explains the huge impact music can have on helping your child calm down, feel energised, or even revise for exams
Understand why your child gets angry with practical ways you can support them and help them calm down
Expert guest Lisa talks about how to build strong relationships and the impact trauma and adverse experiences can have on wellbeing
Find out why your child’s senses can have a big impact on their behaviour and the best ways you can support
Understand why your child feels they can’t go to school with helpful ideas to best support them
Understand why your child might be feeling low with practical ideas to support them through it.
Guest Leith Tarling discusses ways to understand your child’s behaviour and the importance of self care.
Learn how to tackle your child’s fears and find out why they feel scared.
Find out more about the free resources My Family Coach has to offer and how to find everything you need
Anthony Benedict talks about suspensions and exclusions from school and the work of pupil referral units
Stop your child swearing and help them learn how to communicate strong emotions without using bad language.
Use these simple ideas to help your child calm down and understand big outbursts of emotions
Rachel talks to Clare about anger and shares simple ways to help your child calm down when they feel angry.
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