Resources

  • Books

    • The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Proven Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind: A practical guide to understanding your child's developing brain and using evidence-based strategies to support emotional and intellectual growth. – Dr. Tina Payne Bryson and Dr. Daniel Siegel

    • Emotional Regulation for Parents: Actionable Strategies and Mindfulness Techniques to Understand Triggers, Reduce Household Conflict, and Build Stronger Family Bonds: Provides practical strategies and mindfulness techniques to help parents manage emotions, reduce conflict, and strengthen family relationships. – T.R. Fosters

    • The Power of Showing Up: How Parental Presence Shapes Who Our Kids Become and How Their Brains Get Wired: Explores how consistent, supportive parental presence helps children develop resilience, secure attachment, and emotional wellbeing. – Daniel J. Siegel MD and Tina Payne Bryson

    • Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers: Examines the importance of strong parent-child relationships and the impact of peer-oriented culture on child development. – Gabor Maté and Gordon Neufeld

    • Reflective Parenting: Raising Emotionally Healthy Children: Encourages parents to develop self-awareness and reflective practices to foster emotionally healthy children. – Sheila Redfern

    • The Thriving Family: How to Achieve Lasting Home-Life Harmony for You and Your Children: Offers practical advice for creating a harmonious family environment and strengthening family relationships. – David Coleman

    • No-Drama Discipline: The Bestselling Parenting Guide to Nurturing Your Child's Developing Mind: Provides brain-based discipline strategies that promote connection, understanding, and positive behaviour. – Daniel J. Siegel MD and Tina Payne Bryson

    • Raising Human Beings: Creating a Collaborative Partnership With Your Child: Introduces a collaborative approach to parenting that builds trust, problem-solving skills, and stronger relationships. – Ross Greene

    • Bringing Up Happy, Confident Children: A Practical Guide to Nurturing Resilience, Self-Esteem and Emotional Well-Being: Focuses on practical ways to build children's resilience, confidence, and emotional wellbeing. – John Sharry

    • Good Enough: A Framework for Modern Parenting: Reassures parents that perfection is unnecessary while offering practical guidance for raising emotionally healthy children. – Dr Tara Porter

    • Raising a Secure Child: Explains how secure attachment supports children's emotional development and provides strategies for strengthening parent-child relationships. – Kent Hoffman

    • Parenting From the Inside Out: Helps parents understand how their own life experiences shape their parenting and relationships with their children. – Daniel J. Siegel

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    • Therapeutic Parenting for Single Parents: Practical Strategies to Raise Resilient, Confident Children with Love, Boundaries and Support: Offers practical guidance for single parents to build secure relationships, establish healthy boundaries, and raise resilient, confident children. – Anita Morgan

    • Parenting When Separated: Helping Your Children Cope and Thrive: Provides practical advice to help separated parents support their children's emotional wellbeing and adjust positively to family changes. – John Sharry

    • When Mom and Dad Separate: Children Can Learn to Cope with Grief (Drawing Out Feelings): Uses creative drawing activities to help children express emotions, understand family separation, and develop healthy coping skills. – Marge Eaton Heegaard

    Websites

    • Online Workshop: Positive Parenting When Separated with John Sharry – www.solutiontalk.ie

    • Parents Plus Parenting When Separated Programme – www.parentsplus.ie

    • Parentline – www.parentline.ie

    • Triple P Online Programme: Family Transitions – Support Your Child Through Separation or Divorce – www.triplep-parenting.net

  • Books

    • Brainstorm: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain: Explores the science of adolescent brain development and explains how understanding the teenage brain can strengthen relationships and support healthy growth. – Daniel J. Siegel

    • Parenting Teenagers: A Guide to Solving Problems, Building Relationships and Creating Harmony: Offers practical strategies for managing common parenting challenges, improving communication, and building positive relationships with teenagers. – John Sharry

    • How Do You Hug a Cactus? Reflective Parenting with Teenagers in Mind: Encourages parents to use reflective parenting techniques to better understand and connect with teenagers during adolescence. – Sheila Redfern

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  • Books

    • Fear Less: The Ten-Step Guide to Helping Kids Take Charge of Anxiety: Provides a practical ten-step approach to helping children understand, manage, and overcome anxiety with confidence. – David Coleman

    • When My Worries Get Too Big: A Relaxation Book for Children Who Live with Anxiety: Uses simple language and practical relaxation strategies to help children recognise and manage anxiety. – Kari Dunn Buron

    • A "5" Could Make Me Lose Control!: An Activity-Based Method for Evaluating and Supporting Highly Anxious Students: Presents an activity-based approach to understanding anxiety levels and supporting children with emotional regulation. – Kari Dunn Buron

    • How to Support Your Anxious Child: A Practical Guide for Parents and Carers: Offers practical advice and strategies for helping children manage anxiety and build resilience. – Poppy O'Neill

    • Shrink Your Worries: A Child's Guide to Overcoming Anxiety: A child-friendly workbook that teaches practical techniques for understanding and reducing anxiety. – Poppy O'Neill

    • The Self-Regulation Workbook for Kids: CBT Exercises and Coping Strategies to Help Children Handle Anxiety, Stress, and Other Strong Emotions: Provides CBT-based activities and coping strategies to help children manage anxiety, stress, and overwhelming emotions. – Jenna Berman

    • Love In, Love Out: A Compassionate Approach to Parenting Your Anxious Child: Encourages a compassionate, relationship-based approach to supporting children experiencing anxiety. – Malie Coyne

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    Articles

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    • The Incredible 5-Point Scale: Assisting Students in Understanding Social Interactions and Controlling Their Emotional Responses: Introduces the 5-Point Scale, a practical tool to help children understand emotions, improve self-regulation, and navigate social situations. – Kari Dunn Buron and Mitzi Curtis

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    • Building Resilience in Children and Teens: Giving Kids Roots and Wings: Provides practical strategies for helping children and teenagers develop resilience, confidence, and the skills to thrive through life's challenges. – Kenneth R. Ginsburg and Martha M. Jablow

    • The Resilience Workbook for Kids: Fun CBT Activities to Help You Bounce Back from Stress and Grow from Challenges: A workbook filled with CBT-based activities to help children build resilience, manage stress, and develop healthy coping skills. – Caren Baruch-Feldman and Rebecca Comizio

    • Happy Confident Me Daily Journal: Gratitude and Growth Mindset Journal to Boost Children's Happiness, Self-Esteem, Positive Thinking, Mindfulness and Resilience: A guided journal that encourages gratitude, positive thinking, mindfulness, and resilience through daily reflection. – Annabel Rosenhead, Nadim Saad, and Jo Chadwick

    • You've Got This! Release Your Inner Power and Be Awesomely You: Encourages children to build self-confidence, resilience, and emotional wellbeing through practical activities and positive thinking. – Poppy O'Neill

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