Coping Skills
Janine Halloran
Ways to Connect with Kids and Teens

Building a strong connection with our children is really important and taking the time to invest in our relationships with them at each stage of childhood and into the teenage years. Today Janine considers the opportunities we create for them to share what they like and what you enjoy also in day to day life. How can we connect with our kids well so that when they face challenges or difficulties they feel like they can come speak with you, the parent? 

In this episode we discuss strategies for connecting well, including:

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Janine Halloran
Helping Kids with Social Skills and ...

Have you noticed social skills missing in your kids? Caroline Maguire joins me to discuss how to support your child and build them up through play. 

Here’s some of the areas we cover:

Coping Skills
Janine Halloran
Coping Skills for Teens Who Are Angry

Has your child hit their teenage years and puberty has started? Have you noticed their emotions are changing? What about their most extreme emotions? Do you find that your teenager can feel really angry at times?

In today’s episode, Janine unpacks some strategies to help you as parents support your teenager and how to develop that connection between yourself as the parent and them. 

Here’s what Janine discusses in today’s episode:

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Janine Halloran
Books to Help Kids with OCD: An Interview with ...

OCD can manifest itself in different ways with different obsessions and focus that are going on in your life. Children’s author, Marin Canaday describes OCD feeling like a monster devouring your emotions and feelings, where you could get to the point where you feel out of control and you begin to believe the lies the OCD obsessions tell you about yourself. 

Marin joins me today in this episode and we discuss some of the following areas: 

Coping Skills
Janine Halloran
Seven Coping Skills to Use at an Elementary ...

A child at Elementary School will be learning and figuring out what emotions are and what’s going on in their bodies when their ‘big feelings’ appear. They’ll be learning to put names to their emotions and trying figuring out why they’re feeling what they are. 

In the moments when they feel upset, overwhelmed and unable to put words to their emotions, there are some straightforward strategies we can have in our toolkit ready to use and support this age group with. 

Here are some some of the strategies discussed in todays episode:

School counseling

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The Many Roles of a School Counselor: An Interview with Rachel Davis of Bright Futures Counseling

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The Many Roles of a School Counselor: An Interview with Rachel Davis of Bright Futures Counseling

Every school has a school counselor and there are so many reasons why a school counselor may work with any student at any stage of their educational career. But what do they do? From individual 1-1 support to whole class workshops, a school counselor is there to see students thrive and support them with strategies so they can love and enjoy learning. They give the tools the student needs for the challenge in front of them at that moment. Today I speak to school counselor, Rachel Davis. The topics we cover in this episode are:

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