Parent & Carer Hub

Welcome! You’ve arrived at this Parent & Carer Hub because your child’s school has invested in The Resilience Project’s wellbeing curriculum – and we’re pretty excited!

When supporting your children’s mental health, we know the best outcomes happen when we work together and practise.

That’s precisely where this hub comes in – to share the simple, evidence-based strategies being taught in the classroom so you can build on their impact at home. Don’t worry, we know a lot of this will be second nature to you, however if you’re interested to learn more and be inspired with additional ways to help your kids (and yourself) feel happier, we’ve got you covered.

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Watch Martin explain all of this and more in the following introduction video

Explore the key principles:

Gratitude

Empathy

Mindfulness

Emotional Literacy

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Gratitude is being able to recognise and label your feelings and emotions as they happen.

Research & Benefits of Gratitude

To make gratitude engaging for a range of audiences, we tailor our delivery.

Here’s an example of how we might talk about gratitude with your child.

Practise

When we practise something enough, it becomes a habit. Here’s a habit builder to help you and your family embed gratitude in your day, everyday:

Quick activity

Every night at dinner, have each person talk about their favourite thing about that day.

Family Activity - Delve Deeper

Practising gratitude helps us to be thankful and appreciate what we have in our lives, rather than focussing on what we don’t have or what we want.

Try practising gratitude with your family with our family activity.

Empathy is when we put ourselves in the shoes of others to feel and see as they do.

Research & Benefits of Empathy

To make empathy engaging for a range of audiences, we tailor our delivery.

Here’s an example of how we might talk about empathy with your child.

Practise

When we practise something enough, it becomes a habit. Here’s a habit builder to help you and your family embed empathy in your day, everyday:

Quick activity

Each day, have each person thank another family member for something they’ve done or said today, or give another family member a compliment.

Family Activity - Delve Deeper

Working on empathy helps us to identify, understand and feel what another person is feeling.

When we show empathy or we do something kind for someone else our brain releases oxytocin. This leads to increasing our self-esteem/confidence, energy levels, positivity and overall happiness.

Mindfulness is our ability to be calm and present at any given moment.

Research & Benefits of Mindfulness

To make mindfulness engaging for a range of audiences, we tailor our delivery.

Here’s an example of how we might talk about mindfulness with your child.

Practise

When we practise something enough, it becomes a habit. Here’s a habit builder to help you and your family embed empathy in your day, everyday:

Quick activity

When sharing a meal together, ask everyone to take one mouthful of food more mindfully than the rest and think about the flavours they can taste and how it makes them feel. (They can also thank the chef!).

Family Activity - Delve Deeper

Working on mindfulness gives us opportunities to develop our ability to pay attention to the present moment and our thoughts.

Practising mindfulness daily can help us stay focused on set tasks and reduce stress and anxiety.

Emotional Literacy is being able to recognise and label your feelings and emotions as they happen.

Research & Benefits of Emotional Literacy

Practise

When we practise something enough, it becomes a habit. Here’s a habit builder to help you and your family embed empathy in your day, everyday:

Quick activity

Pick a time and ask everyone to share a feeling they felt during that day. Discuss how they dealt with that feeling and then discuss and share strategies you could use when faced with particular feelings.

Family Activity - Delve Deeper

Working on our emotional literacy gives us opportunities to develop our ability to understand and express different emotions.

When we improve our emotional literacy, we can work towards recognising our own feelings and our ability to manage them. This allows us to cope with different life situations, such as managing conflict, making friends, coping in difficult situations and being resilient when dealing with change.

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