Supporting a child or young person can be incredibly rewarding, but it can also be demanding, especially when navigating education, wellbeing, family responsibilities, and everyday challenges. As a parent or carer, it’s easy to put your own needs last, yet looking after yourself is an important part of being able to support those who depend on you.
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In this webinar Dr Andrea Warman (Director of Nifa Children and Families Consultancy) draws upon her work with foster carers, adopters and special guardians to explore the social and emotional meanings of food for children and their carers. She identifies some of the challenges, but uses examples of cooking, shopping and eating together to demonstrate how good care supports a healthy relationship with food in childhood and into adulthood.
Sara Cain (certified breath coach and Wim Hof Method instructor) explains how you can harness the benefits of tuning into the breath and talks through a number of exercises that parents can do with their children. Sara also talks about how breath can be used to calm in moments of stress, as well as aiding sleep for children and parents.
An Adopter Champion (experienced adopter peer supporter) shares tips and ideas of things you can try to help look after yourself. (Though this was written with adopters in mind, it contains useful information for special guardians/kinship carers too).
In this webinar Louise Best (Dramatherapist and Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) Practitioner) explains how you can use EFT (also known as ‘tapping’) to decrease stress levels and improve emotional regulation. She demonstrates the technique and discusses how this simple, yet effective approach can be beneficial to parents, children and professionals in education and care settings.