Connecting with your child worksheets

Five downloadable worksheets designed to help parents connect with their children. 

• ‘Emotion Coaching Versus Dismissing’ provides examples of ways parents can coach rather than dismiss the emotions of their children. 
• ‘Creating Connection’ contains a list of questions for children under eight years old, designed to help parents connect with children. 
• ‘Help Label Emotions’ is a worksheet designed to help children verbally label their emotions. 
• ‘Communicate Empathy’ contains a list of statements designed to communicate empathy and understanding to a child.
• ‘Remembering Life as Child’ is a list of questions designed to help parents remember what life was like as a child to help them connect with their child. 

Thank you to Silvia Amici (Support Coordinator for Hume City Council) for suggesting this content.