It’s all over the news this week about some young children experiencing panic attacks recently, perhaps due to the pandemic, school closures, worry over illness and restrictions. From my experience, supporting families over the last year and a half, during the lockdowns and school closures, families have relayed […]
It’s Mental Health Awareness Week this week so I’m sharing with you a fantastic set of resources for helping families support their children’s mental health: Daniel’s Dreams, Monster Mountain Chapter Book and well-being resource pack by Leanne Brown. What are they? The chapter book (Daniel’s Dreams, Monster Mountain […]
We’ve been reading an amazing picture book gifted to us this week called Wild by Annette Demetriou & Dawn White (illustrated by Ryan Sonderegger). What’s it about? Wild tells the story of two ‘mild’ wolves that meet a pack of ‘wild’ wolves who intimidate and scare them. But […]
For those who’ve been reading The SEN Resources Blog for a while now, you’ll probably remember me raving about a fantastic book for kids by Katie Flanagan called ‘What am I Feeling?‘(have a look at our review here). This book is a brilliant resource for helping children to […]
2020 has been a difficult year for so many people worldwide and it continues to be so. As a result, it’s not come as a surprise that we’ve had lots of enquires about recommendations of resources to support children’s emotions recently. One resource we’ve come across this week […]
We’ve been reading a wonderful Children’s book this week called A Vision of Empathy by Dunkle Deed. A clever and heartwarming book that not only teaches children about autism but also shows them what empathy is and why it is so important. A Vision of Empathy is about […]
Understanding friendships, making friends and navigating playground friendship groups can be tricky for lots of children. Here are some of our favourite books for young children to help them learn about friendships and hopefully encourage them to open up about any problems they may be having. Midge & […]
In my experience, raising, caring for and teaching children is absolutely wonderful but it is also incredibly hard work. Whilst children are navigating their understanding of the world, their own ability to communicate, their emotions and even hormones it takes a lot of patience as adults to stay […]
Helping young children to develop an understanding of their own emotions and the emotions of others, is very important. If a child can start to use words, or signs to express how they are feeling it enables others to help them more effectively. For example, if a child […]
Our next focus on The SEN Resources Blog is all about helping children to understand their own emotions. (Follow our blog, Facebook or twitter to find our more and see all our upcoming recommendations of books and resources for helping young children with their emotions.) And we were […]
