Wellbeing

Parents have a significant role to play in laying the foundation for their child’s wellbeing from their earliest years. When your child feels connected to their family, peers and teachers they feel safe and secure and know they’ll be supported throughout their learning journey. Safe and trusting relationships create a positive learning environment where wellbeing can flourish.

The Australian Student Wellbeing Framework supports you to work with the school to promote your child's wellbeing and learning.

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Articles

Wellbeing and your child

Helping your child grow and develop their emotional, social and physical skills can be exciting and sometimes challenging. This article explores some of the factors that make up wellbeing and how you can use simple strategies to ensure your child feels safe, secure and connected to others so that they are in the best possible position to learn and succeed.

Understanding key transitions

Once they start school, children and young people will move through several transition stages and these can impact their wellbeing and success in learning and in later life. This article explores the important role parents have in helping children successfully tackle the big steps in their lives.

Sensitive topics

Ever had your child ask you something about a difficult or sensitive topic? Talking about sensitive issues isn’t always easy and you might even feel uncomfortable, but parents know that their children look to them for honesty and openness. This article provide some tips for communicating about sensitive topics with your child that so that the trusting bond you have created with them is strengthened.

Podcasts

These podcasts have good tips for promoting family wellbeing. Find them by searching in your podcast app.

Sleep Podcast

Professor Harriet Hiscock and Associate Professor Emma Sciberras help you identify sleeping problems in your children, from infancy to secondary school, and give you easy to understand steps to improve their sleep cycles and overall health.