Mindfulness can help with depression, anxiety, anger, building relationships, and more! This Mindfulness Toolkit comes from the free app Smiling Mind. You can use the toolkit and the app with your families or in your classrooms! For more help and resources, visit the Smiling Mind website: https://www.smilingmind.com.au/at-home.
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Here is a fun game that you can play together as a family! Studies show that family fun time has a lot of benefits for our mental and emotional well-being. This came can build better relationships, communication, and trust within a family.
Family fun is shown to improve relationships, healthy development in children, communication skills, and self-esteem! Here is a fun activity you can try together as a family.
Here is a fun template to make a summer bucket list. You can do this alone or with your family! Making bucket lists are fun, but it's even more fun to do the things on the list together! Research shows that family fun time is essential for a child's physical and mental healthy development. It increases happiness, communication, trust, relationships, and more! How many things can you finish together on your bucket list?
Here are some tips from the Love and Logic program on how to turn your words into gold involving children's behaviors. The words we say to children and how we say them can make a big difference! Research has shown that the techniques taught through the Love and Logic program are ver effective with changing children's behaviors. Here are some examples of phrases to use for parents and teachers. Parents Version:
Here are some fun kid-friendly jokes to start the day off, read together as a family, read for a homework break, put in lunches, or just to use if you need a laugh!
Here is a tool kit from The National Alliance of Grieving Children to help kids, teens, and parents respond to life changes or loss.
When we hear the word grief, we often think of death. Although these two words are associated, there are many other events that can lead to grief in a child; Moving, loss of a parent's job, school closures, a friend moving, a teacher moving or unable to complete the school year, and death are just a few example of events that can bring grief to a child. Below are 10 ways to help a child cope with grief from The National Alliance of Grieving Children (There are many other helpful resources on their website).
Here are 40 Positive things you can say to kids to pump up their self-esteem and happiness. The more true kind things we say to each other, the better we will feel.
Fox News gave a time capsule for kids to be able to look back in a positive way during this unique time. You can do this with your kids, and you can think of your own ideas to add to your time capsule! A downloadable version is also available for you at the bottom:
Here is a fun twist to the game Candy Land. You can also modify this with other colored games. This is a fun way to help your child understand and communicate their feelings. You can play together as a family whether your child is struggling with their emotions or not!
This is a fun game to play as a family or with friends to help children understand their feelings and feel more comfortable talking about them. You can use the questions provided here, or you can think of your own!
Below is a calendar with a daily feel good challenge for each school day left in the school year. Each challenge is a small thing that you can do to improve your mental health. Many people are under a lot of stress with all the changes due to COVID-19, and these daily challenges can help. You can work with your child and give them a reward when they finish so many challenges, or when they finish them all. You could also make it a fun challenge to do together as a family and see who can get the most challenges done.
When families spend time together during dinner time, evenings, or any family fun time, it increases a child's mental well-being, creativity, healthy relationships, sense of safety, self-esteem, and more. It also decreases anger, depression, and anxiety. Here are some fun chit chat cards from Parents Empowered to do as a family during dinner or other family times. These cards are a great way to know each other better and increase a child's ability to communicate and empathize with others. You can download the file below in English or Spanish.
Here is a fun dice game to connect with others and connect with our emotions. You can make and color your own dice (below), or just play with normal dice. You can play it together as a family, one-on-one, or with friends. See how many connections you can make!
Using I feel statements are a great way to practice communication with kids for resolving conflicts with friends or family.
I feel__________ because________ I need you to please___________. Everyone has different coping tools to help us feel better. Some are healthy, and some are unhealthy. It is important to understand what coping tools we like, so we can practice using them during hard times or when we are having difficult emotions. Below, are some coping tools and an action plan for kids. You can download the file below, print it out, and see how many different coping tools you already have! When you are angry, stressed, sad, or worried, you can practice trying these coping tools, and notice how they make you feel! It is also good to practice these tools when you are happy, so your smart brain will know what to do when your safety brain is making you feel bad. You can do this activity alone or with your friends and compare!
Often times when there is a stressful situation or unwanted emotion in our lives, we feel like we have lost our control, but there are still a lot of things that we can control in our lives, even if we feel like we can't. Here is a list 50 things you can control to help you stay grounded in your life, even during a stressful time, unwanted emotion, or a crisis. Parents, this is a good activity to do alone or with your kids to spark a conversation about what they can control in their lives. At the bottom of this page, you can download a checklist version of this picture, print it, and have your child check off the things they think they can control. Kids, see how many things you can control! If you would like to download a checklist version of this paper to use at home, click on the link below.
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