Health feature from Families Birmingham

Six Steps to Good Mental Health

Help support your child’s mental health with these steps from PlanBee.

Name emotions and feelings

This helps your child develop a vocabulary to explain their feelings.

Explain the physical sensations

Help your child recognise how different emotions feel physically.

Understand when/why

Once your child can spot/name their emotions, help them understand the triggers.

Help regulate

Once they understand the source of an emotion, help them regulate.

Keep everyone safe

When feeling a big emotion, your child’s brain doesn’t work in the same way as when they are calm. Help them stay safe and maintain boundaries.

Once your child is calm, relate

Listen, empathise and share similar experiences to help them understand their feelings and know you care.

Get hatty and help find a cure for brain tumours!

Calling all families across the country: join Brain Tumour Research on Friday 26th March to take part in entertaining, hat-themed fundraising events to help find a cure for brain tumours.

After the very challenging year, we know that Wear A Hat Day 2021 is perfectly timed to become a huge event, bringing hope and inspiring the nation like never before!

Thanks to the brilliant charity partnership with Venture Studios, we’ve been gifted with inspirational and uplifting portraits of key worker families who, despite having their own devastating brain tumour stories, are determined to show involved in Wear A Hat Day. find a cure for brain tumours.

Register to take part: http://www.wearahatday.org

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