Parent Toolbox
Helping you and your children experience mental and emotional wellness with practical mindfulness that improves calm, connection and communication in your home.Dealing with emotional visitors during family lockdown (yours and your childrens)
We're now in a position where we're homeschooling our children. One HUGE topic that is massively overlooked in education is that of caring for our mental health and emotional wellbeing. (It's definitely improving, I'm glad to say). Now I guarantee that the majority of...
Making and using glitter jars for emotional wellbeing during family lockdown
Glitter Jars are a wonderful way of finding calm and understanding our visiting emotions. They're super easy to make and if you make more than one, you can have them around the house as a reminder and prompt for mindful awareness and pausing to respond rather than...
Teacher Toolbox: Helping self-critical and frustrated learners to learn with more ease.
How do we help children to learn when they're frustrated? 1. Recognising you’re feeling frustrated is the first step. 2. Knowing what to do with the feeling of frustration is the second step. 3. Noticing the thoughts and words that you produce when you’re frustrated...
Parent Toolbox: Helping your child with their fears and worries
"Mum, I'm scared of the dark." Words from my four year old recently. When I delved deeper, it wasn't the dark he was scared of, but the thoughts about 'baddies' getting him. (He loves superheroes and it turns out he was thinking about the...
Parent Toolbox: Sharing School Mindfulness with Parents
If you want to develop a mindful school community then you need to include as many people as possible in the practice of mindfulness. Teachers, support staff, children AND parents. Below is a Parent Update Video that my Learnful schools send out to their parents each...
Parent Toolbox: Communicating about moods with your family
What’s your weather? How is your weather affecting people around you? Watch this as a family and spend some time focusing on what’s going on for each of you. Let me know how you get on 😊 Jo x https://vimeo.com/337520361 Parent & Child Mindfulness and Mindset...
Parent Toolbox: Our internal weather
The weather here today is sunny and clear. Bright and warming. Have you ever considered what your internal weather is like? How does this affect your communication with others and your day-to-day actions? Bright and clear, warm and sunny or are clouds building? The...
Using the weather in our mindful practice
Everyone's attention is drawn when the rain pelts! Whether you're sat at your desk or in the middle of doing something, you can't help but notice the sound and the sight of heavy rain. This downpour happened today, so I recorded it as a mini-mindful awareness...
Mindfulness for when children encounter frightening, upsetting and traumatic experiences.
Two events this week have led me to write this article. The first was a question from a parent about how mindfulness ‘works’ with ‘damaged’ children and the other was an enquiry from a school about my mindfulness services. I felt it important to share my thoughts....
Mindful body awareness for younger children (and parents)
This is a lovely way of connecting with, paying attention to and showing gratitude to our bodies - our home. The mindful practise for you as a parent, is to stay with the immediate experience and notice each time you have wandered off elsewhere in your mind. When you...