For Parents & Carers

Supporting Your Loved Ones

Parenting during COVID-19 pandemic

This article from The Incredible Year's provides tips and advice for staying safe and calm while dealing with this time which is far from normal. There are a host of helpful downloads, which include:

  • Keeping calm and providing supportive parenting during the Coronavirus

  • Tips for helping children cope with social distancing

  • Tips for Grandparents reaching out remotely

  • Praise, encouragement and incentives handouts

  • Tips for teaching children emotional regulation skills

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought all kinds of unique challenges, and remote learning is just one!

Learning from home: Professor Cathy Richards shares top tips to help support children's wellbeing

Arts for Challenging Times

Whether you are managing and self-caring for your loved ones or yourself, these are helpful arts and mindful resources gathered by the NHS Lothian's Arts Therapies team.

Click here to read their collection of:

  • Music resources

  • Arts resources

  • Dance & Movement

  • Read

  • Performance

  • Mindfulness

  • Psychological First Aid+

Building Resilience - Back to School Tips

We all want to help our children and young people make as smooth a transition as possible back into school and to feel safe and happy there. These tips have been developed as a resource for parents and carers to use to support themselves and their children to become more resilient and develop the skills needed to cope with challenging times.

Click here


Nurture, Recovery & Reconnect

Find out how East Lothian Schools are using Nurture Principals to help children settle back into school after lock-down:

  1. All learning is understood developmentally

  2. The school offers a safe base

  3. Nurture is important for wellbeing

  4. Language is a vital means of communication

  5. All behaviour is communication

  6. Transitions are important

"You can't pour from an empty cup"

Taking care of ourselves is just as important as taking care of those we care about.

Your Mind Plan

An interactive quiz of 5 questions to get top tips and advice for you, tailored for the COVID-19 pandemic.

Children's 1st Parentline

Parentline is available to all East Lothian families, and can offer practical, emotional and financial advice.