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Useful Tips

Tips to improve your child’s listening and attention

  • Fewer words -  keep language to the point and specific eg “Toys away please”
  • Low and slow - deepen your voice and slow your speech.
  • Walk and talk - boys are often better at listening when they are moving eg play catch and talk.
  • Later when calm - walk away when you are angry and discuss an issue when you both feel calm.
  • Touch and talk - touch his/her arm gently and his/her ears will open .
  • Eyes and mouth - make sure your expression matches your words eg don’t laugh when your child does something you don’t want him/her to do.  
  • This or this - give your child two choices eg you can either do some drawing or reading
  • Three week rule. You need to use the skills for 3 weeks before behaviour will change.

 

These techniques are appropriate for all children!

 

Dealing with anxiety

 

CAMHS:

For more information on anxiety support; click HERE

For more information on ASD & Anxiety support; click HERE

For more information on Worry support, click HERE

 

Dragonfly have published a free booklet about how to deal with anxiety and how it could impact education.

https://dragonflyimpact.co.uk/anxiety-booklet-pdf/

 

The Expert Parent's Guide to Childhood Anxiety

This guide is for parents to help children understand, cope and become strengthened by their experiences of anxiety at a young age. 

https://tutorful.co.uk/guides/the-expert-guide-to-help-your-child-with-anxiety

 

 Bedtime Advice

Good sleep is important for your child's physical and mental wellbeing.
A relaxing bedtime routine is one important way to help your child get a good night's sleep.

Relaxation tips to help sleep

Doing the same relaxing things in the same order and at the same time each night helps promote good sleep:

  • A warm (not hot) bath will help your child relax and get ready for sleep.
  • Keeping lights dim encourages your child's body to produce the sleep hormone, melatonin.
  • Once they're in bed, encourage your child to read quietly or listen to some relaxing music, or read a story together.
  • Is your child getting enough sleep?

According to the National Sleep Foundation:

  • Children aged 3-5 should have 11-13 hours each night.
  • Children aged 6-13 should have 9-11 hours each night.
    As children get older, they become more interested in TV, computers, the media and Internet as well as caffeine products – all of which can lead to difficulty falling asleep, nightmares and disruptions to their sleep. In particular, watching TV close to bedtime has been associated with bedtime resistance, difficulty falling asleep, anxiety around sleep and sleeping fewer hours.

Screen Time
It is important to limit your children’s screen time before they go to bed as it has a huge impact on their ability to sleep well. Screens should be turned off 90 minutes before sleeping.