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Boost your child's mental wellbeing

Wednesday 3 February, 2021

These activities can help your children deal with a range of feelings and emotions that the pandemic has brought on and help boost their mental wellbeing. During the Covid-19 pandemic, we're all feeling less secure and missing our usual routines. But just as doing exercise improves physical health, you and your child can do activities to boost their mental health.

Create a Routine:
We’ve all experienced changes in our lives and routines, especially children because they can’t go to school. Create a new routine together to help your child feel more secure. Use the timetable below to create a visual timetable with your child. Children can draw or write in the timetable or cut out and stick images of the suggested activities. Remember, it is important to have time to relax.

Start a Feelings Diary:
A feelings diary can help your child to identify feelings and help them understand that feelings change. Try to spend time talking about one or two feelings your child has had each day. If they have difficult feelings (anxious, lonely, sad or frustrated) tell them that it’s okay to feel like this and completely normal, especially because of everything that is happening. Use the pictures from the ‘Feelings Chart’ to help children to come up with ideas.

Use a Feelings Chart:
Make a chart to identify and talk about feelings you and your child might have.

Make a Feelings Toolbox:
Life is upside down right now. Helping your child to find ways to relax and cope is vital to help their mind and body switch off from their worries. Explain that they should fill their coping toolbox with things which remind them of good times or will help them feel better. For example: photos, drawings, a gift which someone has given them, a sachet of hot chocolate, a bath bomb, a list of activities they can do to relax: cuddle a teddy, watch their favourite DVD, take 10 deep breaths etc. If you don’t have a box or container your child can find a special place in their room to put the items or simply list/draw on a picture of a toolbox.

Creating a routine timetable Feelings chart Feelings diary
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