Pathway for parents or carers of children aged 4 to 11 years
Join our introductory learning pathway for all parents, carers and grandparents to help you understand your child’s behaviour and emotional wellbeing, considering the impact of the pandemic and how it may have affected your child.
Pathway stages
Bitesize stages for daily steps towards confident parenting and connected relationships.
1. You and the pandemic
1.1 Welcome!
1.2 The pandemic and you
1.3 The positive side
1.4 The negative side
1.5 Your child or children
2. Your child and the COVID pandemic
2.1 The pandemic through their eyes
2.2 Anything they liked?
3. Possible effects of the pandemic
3.1 Managing change
3.2 Separation anxiety
3.3 Social skills
3.4 Lost skills and confidence
3.5 Missed development time
3.6 General development
3.7 Everybody’s different
4. Relationships
4.1 Relationships
4.2 Rupture
4.3 Rupture and repair
4.4 Rupture and repair in everyday life
4.5 The COVID pandemic and your child
5. What’s next
5.1 What’s next
5.2 Congratulations and feedback
5.3 Acknowledgements
About this pathway
This short pathway introduces ideas about children’s emotional wellbeing and explores how the disruptions caused by the coronavirus pandemic—such as lockdowns, social distancing and changes in routine—may have affected your child’s emotional wellbeing and behaviour. Whether your child seems more anxious, less interested in previous activities, or is struggling socially, this pathway offers helpful insights to support their emotional health.
Our clinical child psychologists, psychotherapists and health practitioners will introduce you to ideas on children’s emotional wellbeing in just five short stages. This pathway is a gentle starting point for understanding your child’s post-pandemic experiences and can be followed by our more in-depth pathways, such as Understanding your child or Understanding your child with additional needs, for further guidance and support.
This pathway is for all parents, grandparents and carers of children of primary school age. Our pathway, Understanding the impact of the pandemic on your teenager, is tailored to older children.
89% learners found the pathway helpful
81% learners said the pathway is making a difference for them
“Helped me understand approaches and validate what I was feeling is normal!”
Learner from the pathway
“It helped understand covid from my child’s perspective and made me realise it affected them more than I thought it would.”
Partner from the pathway
“This pathway is very vital for how we move forward from the pandemic.”
Learner from the pathway
“The pathway is helpful in thinking about the children’s experiences during the pandemic and after and how relationships impact on their wellbeing.”
Parent from the pathway
