The Huge Bag of Worries

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If you’re feeling crafty, making a Worry Worm is a great way to help your children open up about their emotions. Explains how to cope with children's negative feelings, how to express anger without being hurtful, how to engage a child's willing cooperation, how to set firm limits and maintain goodwill, and, how to resolve family conflicts. The Huge Bag of Worries written by Virginia Ironside is a brilliant book exploring emotions and wellbeing. One of the activities I like to do after reading the book is to give a child a bag and using potatoes add them to the bag one at a time so they get a real feel of how worries can weigh you down. Studies have shown that the simple relabelling of anxiety to excitement is often enough to change the body's response to excitement!

The story is a great example of how we will all feel sometimes, and it makes it easy to see how worries can build up and affect all areas of our lives, even for grown-ups like parents or teachers. Shows how to build relationships by communicating effectively with children and other adults using the ideas of social pedagogy.

It may be hard to see children worrying, but it is completely normal, especially if lots of change is going on in their lives.

Based on solution focused practice principles, illustrates communication skills and playful techniques for working with children and young people regardless of health, learning or development needs. This My Rainbow Worries Worksheet supports young people with identifying new and alternative ways of coping with their worries and developing a range of coping strategies they can use into adulthood. As well as this worry bag activity, there are lots of other ways you can help your children to think and talk about their worries and emotions. Eventually, it is so big that the girl fears she will never get rid of it and feels she will have to live with it forever.The children can even decide to tear it up and use it alongside this Throw Your Worries Away activity. It would have been good if there had been some talking points at the back of the story to help start a conversation about worries we might have and how we could be like the characters in the story.

You could say that a friend of yours needs some advice about a particular issue and to ask if they have any ideas. Arts and Culture: Taking part in arts and culture can help improve your mental health because it helps you to relax, express who you are and improve confidence and self-esteem through drama, literature, music and art. It focuses on effective communication as a means of resolving difficult situations and challenging behaviour. The author has worked extensively with teenage girls and uses her experiences to show parents how to understand the different cliques and roles girls adopt.Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not clothed like one of these. This is a strategy that allows people to explore their feelings and thoughts using the 3rd person so it is not personal to them. Now invite the children to take their bubbles and their monster outside and blow away those worries. The illustrations in the book are very bright and colourful and give lots of highlights to the important points in the story. They can do it with their teacher in a classroom environment to show students what to do when they worry or, in private at home, as a way for parents and guardians to address their child's worries.

Worry follows Jenny in a big blue bag, it's around wherever she goes, even when relaxing and watching TV! Beyond the UNCRC, the Welsh Government has implemented “Together for Mental Health,” a Cross-Government Strategy setting out goals for improving mental health and mental health services in Wales. Talking about their worries and concerns with an adult outside their family means they may be more likely to open up and feel their feelings matter. Aimed at any practitioner working with children, young people and their families regardless of the setting. This would be a good opportunity to involve the whole family – record the message and send it to the chosen recipient.Whatever it is you want to discuss, it's important to think about where and how to talk so children will listen. Due to an increase in demand across our service, our voice Helpline is currently available 10am–8pm Monday to Friday. Yellow Door (here’s a link) have produced Emotion Stones and I think theses would be a great supporting resource to aid the discussion on feelings and emotions. Shows the different emotional changes for teenagers, how to encourage independence while setting limits, and how fathers can talk to teenagers about drugs, sex, the internet, and relationships. They might want to take it home to talk about with their family, or leave it at school to talk through with a talking partner or friend.