Tuning in to Kids

Yasmin is a certified Tuning in to Kids facilitator. Tuning in to Kids is a parenting program that helps parents to understand their child’s big emotions, such as anger, sadness and anxiety, and make their relationship with their child stronger. Parents learn new ways to parent, in particular how to recognize, understand and respond to their children’s emotions. This approach helps the child to manage their own emotions.  

The program helps parents to: 

• understand the relationship between their children’s emotions and their behaviour 
• support their children to manage strong emotions and deal with conflict 
• use their children’s emotional experiences as an opportunity for closeness and teaching 
• gain awareness and learn to regulate their own emotions 
• develop skills to assist children to verbally label their emotions 
• develop skills to assist children in problem solving 
• guide children’s behaviour with appropriate limits.  

Bev is a certified Cool Kids series facilitator. The Cool Kids  program runs for 10-sessions, and aims to help children, adolescents, and their parents, to learn to manage anxiety and related difficulties.  

Parents and children attend the program together and are provided with workbooks. Practice tasks are a crucial part of the program and are given following every session. Practice tasks encourage use of new skills in everyday situations. Topics covered include: 

• Learning about feelings and anxiety 
• Detective thinking, and learning to think more realistically 
• Ways that parents can help 
• Fighting fear by facing fear (stepladders) 
• Learning to solve a problem 
• Building assertiveness and dealing with teasing

The sessions are grouped into one of three age groups:  

• Pre-schoolers (Cool Little Kids), 
• Children in Grades 1-6 (Cool Kids)
• Adolescents in Years 7-12 (Chilled)

The Cool Kids series also has an Autism Spectrum Disorder adaptation.