What Newbold Hope Can Offer Parents
Free Resources
Newbold Hope’s Free Resources
- Top 10 Tips on how to reduce difficult and dangerous behaviour – 10 very short videos, each one only around five-minutes long, that talk you through how to reduce difficult and dangerous behaviours in SEND children.
- Violent and challenging behaviour – the basics – This explains why difficult and dangerous behaviours happen and how you can help to reduce them.
READ NOW! Violent and Challenging Behaviour - The Basics
- This is not your fault – When you have a child who has difficult or dangerous behaviour, it can feel that everyone assumes that it must be your fault. At a time when you need kindness, compassion and understanding more than ever, chances are that you’ll feel shamed, blamed and judged instead. This explains exactly why none of this is your fault, and why it’s not your child’s fault either.
READ NOW! This is NOT Your Fault
- 15 resilience tips for parents of SEND children with difficult and dangerous behaviours – Some ideas that might make things a little bit easier for you and your own emotional well-being.
READ NOW! 15 Resilience Tips for Parents of Children with SEND VCB
- The link between anxiety and meltdown – anxiety is so poorly understood by the general population, and sometimes it’s very hard to see that it really is anxiety that is causing a child’s extreme behaviour episodes. This explains the link between anxiety and behaviour, because when we understand things better, we’ll be closer to finding solutions that help.
READ NOW! The Link Between Anxiety and Meltdowns
- The first steps in turning your child’s behaviour around – how to get started at helping your child to move beyond their extreme behaviours and find their way to a much happier and more promising future
READ NOW! The First Steps in Turning Around your Child's Behaviour
- What to do when your SEND child controls the whole family – this explains why anxious children can try to control everyone and everything at home, which can make things very difficult for everyone. This explains why it happens and what you can do to help your child reduce their need to control
READ NOW! What to do when your SEND child controls the whole family.
- After a meltdown – avoiding shame – When things have calmed down after a difficult and possibly traumatic behaviour episode, what happens next, and why shame should always be avoided.
READ NOW! After a Violent Meltdown - Avoiding Shame.
- Things to think about before restraining a child – this is a very difficult issue which can polarise opinion, which means it seldom gets discussed. That’s why we felt this was a very important issue to include in our resources.
READ NOW! Violent Children - Should Parents Ever Restrain?
- Screen time and SEND children – how to get the balance right – much of the worst behaviour episodes in some families coincides with when it’s time to stop internet access. I hope that this helps.
READ NOW! Screen Time and SEND Children - How to Get the Balance Right
- Things to try when CAMHS can’t help – we all know how hard It can be to access mental health services for our children, and sometimes there just isn’t any specialist care available for a child who is really struggling. It’s very daunting for parents in this situation so this might help.
READ NOW! What to do when CAMHS can't help
- Pain and the non-verbal child – How can you tell if a non-verbal child is in pain, and how do you get clinicians of board when you know that they are? It’s a potentially very frightening and sometimes life-threatening situation, but this might help.
READ NOW! Recognising pain in the non-verbal child
- Nail-cutting tips for children with sensory processing differences – dozens of tops tips from parents who’ve been there – there might be something that could help.
READ NOW! Taking the stress out of cutting children’s fingernails
- Toilet training tips for SEND children – another collection of the best tips from other parents.
READ NOW! Top Tips – Special Needs Toilet Training
- Mental strength and emotional resilience for parents – more ideas to try to maintain your own well-being
READ NOW! Mental Strength and Emotional Resilience for Parents
- “Buy me this right now”! How to cope when your SEND child wants to buy things all the time – many children in our community want to buy new stuff all the time which can cause tremendous difficulties for parents and the whole family, particularly in being told “no” results in behaviour where family members are at risk of being hurt. This explains why it happens and has lots of tips about how you can get through these times.