Parent Support

How to remain calm, clear and confident in the face of chaos and disruption!! Know what you’re dealing with. What looks like wilful disobedience might not be. This step will give you an overview of the Executive Function deficits and help you gain insight to the fight/flight/freeze response that causes so much anxiety and stress.

What are they telling you and what do they need? How to reduce overload and overwhelm and to read the signs of tantrums and meltdowns and teach coherent coping skills and transitions skills.

Developing consistent routines and strategies to both reinforce good behaviour and sanction poor choices steers behaviour from unpredictable to a "plotable pathway" through frustrations.

Understanding the importance of validating emotions to help your child put “thought to words” on the challenges they’re facing. This helps to strengthen their emotional intelligence, increase their social skills and raise awareness of their responsibility for their actions.

Identify chores, games, hobbies that you can do together to teach essential “patterns of behaviour”: breaking down complex projects into manageable tasks, visualising end results and navigating the steps and sequences to get to the end, turning boring work into play, categorising and colour coding homework, belongings and schedules.

Model and build resilience through the 7 Cs of confidence, character, control, coping, connection, contribution, competence. Reflection practices to make building resilience a habit of life for your child.

Understand the options and adjustments that can be made to support your child’s learning, both at school and at home, that will build focus and organisation. Work through the “ice-berg” model with teachers and support staff so that the strategies at home and at school complement each other.

Learn a selection of handy exercises that can help both you and your child to come “back to the present moment” and restore peace of mind and kindness of heart. These coping strategies can become accessible “rescue tools” when over stimulation and stress can upset and unnerve your child wherever they are.