Course: Parent & Carer Resources, Tile: 1: Building strengths & resilience; staying connected

1: Building strengths & resilience; staying connected

1: Building strengths & resilience; staying connected
- Discovering children's strengths and working with their interests
- Using your child's strengths to help children develop skills and interests
- Characteristics of strong families
- How to use children’s strengths to build resilience and stay connected
- Practical ways to work with children's strengths
- Staying connected
  Remote workers
- Video: Staying connected when home and away for Remote Workers (4 minutes)
- Remote Worker families: Staying Connected
  
  This is a free resource from My FIFO family. They have other resources, such as a children's storybook.
- Educational activities in Children's Resources
  To accompany this module, please use the following resources from Children's Resources:
  1. Explore the puppet activities in the Teaching Activities for the books. Weave these activities into your activities relating to strengths as mentioned in the articles above.
  2. Explore the Project Books related to the eBooks. These will assist you to bring out children's strengths.
- Resources for parents and educators
  There is some good research-based information in these online articles. There will also be many tips that are relevant for educators.
- Resilience
- Reading (9 mins): Tips for building resilience
- Reading (3 mins): Building resilience in children
- Plugging into protective factors in defence families
- Resilient Defence Families
- Encouraging positive behaviour
- Praise, encouragement and rewards
- Reading: Positive encouragement and your child (Birth-11 years) (copy)
- Reading: Reward charts -how to use them to change child behaviour (3-8 years)
- Multimedia article: Praise, encouragement and rewards (1-18 years)
- Impacts on the well-being of defence families and well-being
- Group music making can develop resilience
- Other resources
  Child's cartoon
  In this episode titled 'Cricket' we meet Rusty who loves to play cricket and soon faces some challenges that sees his confidence shaken. Rusty reaches out to his dad who is overseas in the army through letter writing and receives a letter in return with advice that transcends the game and encourages Rusty to face his fears to succeed.
  There is some good research-based information in these online articles.
  Supporting young children when parents work away
  Thinking and learning strengths in children with autism spectrum disorder (3-12 years)
  Embracing your autistic child's strengths
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