Mental Health Week 2022

Relax kids supporting Children’s Mental Health Week 

The theme is Growing Together 

What is growing Together and why is it so important?

Human beings change and grow, we do it all the time and in different ways.

Physical growth is easy to see, look at  some photos from when you started school until now and see how much you have grown. Growing emotionally is also an important part of our development.

This week I will be encouraging children to think about how they have grown, what they need to grow and how they can help others to grow too.

Things that upset when we are younger may no longer overwhelm us as we grow and learn to cope with life’s ups and downs.

Trying new things can help us to move beyond our comfort zone into a new realm of possibility and potential. However emotional growth is a gradual process that happens over time, and sometimes we might get a bit stuck.

At these times we are reminded of how much we need others in our life to help us keep growing.

We all need support to help us keep growing.

We need our parents, carers, teachers, assistants, friends and others to support us especially when things get tough.

We often need others to help us to believe in ourselves, to keep going and to try to do things a bit differently.

Even when we have experienced really difficult challenges in our lives, with the right support we can continue to grow.