Tooled Up Education

50 Ways to Help Primary-Age Children with Anxiety

Sometimes, we need a quick overview on what works when it comes to calming down or reassuring an anxious child. Here are 50 tips to help parents know that they are on the ‘right track’. They should be easy to apply and effective, as they are derived from the best quality research evidence.

Staying Resilient

Once children are feeling resilient and showing the signs of being so, it is important to keep it that way. This resource helps parents to understand the importance of sustaining resilience and provides messages that will help to achieving it.

Resilience Explained

Sometimes, things are easier to understand when we use metaphors to explain them. This resource helps parents to understand how ‘resilience’ works and how to cultivate it. Hint: the metaphor of growing a plant in a fertile soil is used here!

Managing Children’s Anxiety

Anxiety is the largest mental health disorder among children in Britain today. As parents, we are in a unique position to help identify early signs of distress in our children and do something about it. These tips help parents to understand exactly what to do and say to a child who expresses fear and gives ideas for how to better support them.

5 Tips for Raising a Confident Child

We all want our children to be confident, but what are the best ways of achieving this? What do we need to do to help them feel happy and confident? Here are some quick tips to set parents on the right track!

50 Ways to Bond with Your Children Over Christmas

The run-up to the Christmas holidays can be stressful for all families, so it is important that we make sure we spend our quality time with our children wisely. This resource gives you some tips for nurturing that precious bond between you and your child/children.

5 Tips for After School Discussion

Parents are always keen to know how their child’s day has been. It is easy to bombard them with questions when they are tired and hungry! Often, this isn’t a productive approach and these tips remind us that there are easier ways to find out how things went during the school day.

45 Things for Teens to Aim for at Home

We may have less time now that things are starting to return to some level of normality, but having personal goals is a great idea for all of us. Here are some ideas that teens can start to tick off. Enjoy!

50 Questions to Encourage Family Chat

Try to develop your child’s voice at home in family talk and discussions. Help them to look at things from different perspectives, weigh things up and offer opinions. Teach them to take their turn and to listen to others.