1. Positive Solutions for Families
Session 4
Teach Me What To Do! 1

2. What’s Happening Today?
Share your Things to Try at Home
Work through ABCs
Reactive Strategies
Skills Teaching
Self-Care
Activities for next week 2 2

3. Reactive Strategies

4. Skills Teaching

5. Self Care is any activity that we do deliberately to take care of or mental, emotional, and physical health

6. Self-Care has been found to be particularly important for parents who have children with additional needs Any ideas why?

7. Self Care is another Powerful Tool
These parents usually experience higher levels of stress, and sometimes chronic stress
You need to fill you tank to fill your child’s tank
Modelling good self-care to child
More able for challenges/crisis

10. Why do we overlook our needs?

11. Overlooking our needs Feel it is selfish
Will take away from our child’s needs
Long standing pattern
Waiting till there is more time
Nobody says my needs are important
No support
Feel guilty

12. What does self-care look like for you?

13. Self Care Ideas Starting with the basics: sleep, eating exercise
Asking for help
Being able to say ‘no’, and delegate
Hobbies/Interest
Carve out small breaks or ‘me moments’
Find your tribe
Relaxation, deep breathing and
mindfulness

15. ‘Remember if you want to take the best possible care of your child, you must take care of yourself’