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Here are some useful resources and websites that can help to support you and your child during change and emotional times, including mindset techniques and books. Compiled by Anna Blackshaw
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The box Fri 3 Jan - Pantomime Pandemonium (UB10) is packed Get into the pantomime spirit with games and activities inspired by the with all Great British pantomime, in this hour-long session at Oak Farm the Library and from 3pm. Suitable for ages 6 to 10. Free event - nonatural need to book. www.hillingdontheatres.uk healthy dry ingredients Sat 4 – Sun 5 Jan - Woolly Jumpers (SE10) Boing and bounce a fluffy sheep made with wool just the stuff Cutty of like that Sark used to carry all the way from Australia! 11:30am-1:30pm and 2-4pm month’s at Cutty Sark. delicious www.rmg.co.uk and nutritious recipe for kids to bake in the Wed 8 Jan - Bach to Baby Family Concert home. Kits come complete with all the Right continues itsof (NW3)now, Bach toas Babythe is theworld acclaimed concert series for the whole dry, ingredients perfectly measured family organic to enjoy together. musicians and it is journey back to Featuring some outstanding kind of ‘normality,’ to makeperformances each and also include adeal exhilarating in inspiring venues right onchild your doorstep. important that recipe you can help your 10.30amthe atactivity Hampstead Burgh House. small craft forthat children to enjoy with manyor changes will come with www.bachtobaby.com while making their yummy bake. Each this, including returning to school. Sat 11 Jan & Fri 7 Feb Snores for Kids recipe is fun and easy–toDino make and has Change, when not supported appropriately (SW7)designed Ever wonder what happens in the Museum when everyone’s been by a registered nutritionist, by caring adult, feel goneahome? The night beginscan as you set uplike campa intraumatic one of the Museum’s so is free from refined sugar and experience forandaall child. This can then spectacular galleries, there will be plenty to learn and discover processed manifest asatingredients. emotional issues down the line, during your stay the Museum. Stalk the galleries as night descends and find rex in hiddenstart in shadows. midnight, it’s time to settle down so it isT. important that a Atchild is supported Subscriptions from £8.99/month to sleep. Forand ages feels 7-11. seen and heard when gently www.littlecooksco.co.uk www.nhm.ac.uk change is occurring.
Change can be a challenge for both parent and child, and is very often a trigger for a range of emotions.
It’s useful to remember also that children connect through fun, so while it is important to talk about change and the feelings associated with it, it’s also necessary to balance this up with time to play. In essence, children need time to process the change but also time away from focussing on it. With the new school year approaching, here are some tips that can support your child: Deal with your emotions first. Be aware of your own anxiety around the changes you are dealing with. When you can hold space for your own emotions and know how to support yourself, it makes you more able
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to hold space for your child’s emotions and understand how to help them. Seek support for yourself, even if it is just a chat with a friend. Remember that it is okay to be honest about your own emotions with your child as that will create connection between you and help your child understand that their emotions are also experienced by others.
deal-with-change www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/grownups/how-to-prepareregular events. It’s updated every day! your-child-for-primary-school The Art of Simple – 14 Books to Help Ease Children through Transitions www.theartofsimple.net/14-books-to-help-easechildren-through-transitions The Pathway 2 Success - Making a Coping Strategies Wheel www.thepathway2success.com/how-to-make-acoping-strategies-wheel/ Hand in Hand Parenting – Anxious about Starting School www.handinhandparenting.org/2018/08/anxiousabout-starting-school/ Starting School by Janet and Allan Ahlberg Available from Amazon Big Big World by Samantha Francis Available from Amazon
Prepare your child. Talk about the forthcoming changes. Giving your child advance notice will help them be more prepared. Read books or watch television Imagine Children’s Festival 12-23 TheFeb first half of this new term will see your child shows that your child can relate reconnecting with friends and classmates they may not to about the changes they are have seen for months, getting to know a new teacher or going to be dealing with. a new school. Fri 17 – Sun 19 Jan - London Modeleven settling in atfamily-friendly day will include make and take craft workshops, stories, Engineering Exhibition (N22) Now in its 24th year, performances, and aaround traditional communication. Lion Dance. Listen to your child. Validate Observe how your child feels the feelings. popular exhibition the iconic Alexandra Palace. This www.rmg.co.uk their It’s returns okaytofor them Kids are often nervous about making new friends leadingwhat exhibition for model visitors to feel they feel.engineers Don’tcontinues be to enthral Sat 25 Jan Tiny Groovers: A Day-Time through fear of rejection and- some role play might help Party and enthusiasts alike with thousands of scale models from the early tempted to try to rescue them for Under and their Adultssome (E2) Visit the V&A them in the weeks. 5s You could practise age of steam engines right up to today’s modern marvels. There will be coming Museum of Childhood to let loose and stomp your feet with your Tiny from their feelings or tell them conversation or developers to get them feeling plenty of ‘hands on’ activities for children to participate in, from creating starters Groovers. Dance away the January blues and enjoy a DJ set from Mr nota to Byatjust letting them largeworry. LEGO mosaic the Fairy Bricks stand to taking part in model about Manic confident speaking people orand getting to storytelling of Luckyto Dip new Disco and the surreal spectacular express how they feel, many experiments at the Imagineering Foundation stand science lab or other even children know better. from The No-Shamen. Other activities include a movement session children a treasurewill hunt!feel better and this with a contemporary dancer, arts activities and sensory experiences for If your child has specific worries in their first few weeks willwww.londonmodelengineering.co.uk lead to finding solutions to 1-3pm. anxious about specific things back at school orbabes. is highly their worries. Observe your child’s Mon 20 Jan - Tiny Troopers: Posters (SW3) www.vam.ac.uk/moc or more generally, do share this with their teacher so he/ physical needs too. If your child Take your little ones to the toddlers’ session at the National Army Sat Jan - Inventors of Tomorrow Family she you25 both. exhibits is and also Museum,increased perfect for agesanxiety 2 to 4. Sing,itplay create with yourcan little support one Workshop (W11) Are you looking for some quality family beneficial with on - each time,to Tinyreflect Troopers will havethem a different theme, with this session Teaching your child different of mindfulness learning? Enjoy fun types for the whole family at the Museum of Brands as you stressful pastbyevents they dealt being inspired Army posters. activities such asexperiment, breathing relaxation also with the unique learnand and explore the worldwill of technology, Sessions start at 10am and 11.20am, and last approximately 45 minutes. with successfully. help them shouldInventors they of start to feel overwhelmed at tech toy experts, Tomorrow workshop in collaboration with www.nam.ac.uk Big Clown. 2-3pm. school. These techniques can also be useful if they are Samantha Francis is a mum of Sat 25 Jan - Chinese New Year (SE10) Visit the to settle amy@museumofbrands.com www.museumofbrands.com struggling to sleep at night. Remember that it’s two, best-selling author and the Year of the Rat. This National Maritime Museum and celebrate best to practise the techniques fairly frequently in order parenting and relationship for your child to be able to implement them confidently specialist. in stressful situations.
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