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  • Guide titled 'How to Talk to Your Child About Their Diagnosis: ADHD' with tips on communication, reassurance, strengths, and resources for parents of children with ADHD. Contains logo of a parent and child, website, social media icons, and contact information.

    Diagnosis Talk ADHD

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  • Guide titled 'How to Talk to Your Teen About Their Diagnosis: Depression,' with sections on calming conversations, understanding depression, normalization and education, validation, helping them name and notice feelings, reminders they are not alone, resources, and contact info

    Diagnosis Talk Depression

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  • Informational poster from Attache Kids providing guidance on talking to children about OCD, including tips for calm communication, understanding OCD, normalizing thoughts, separating OCD from the child, and resources for families.

    Diagnosis Talk OCD

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  • Poster titled 'Parenting Through Divorce: Co-Parenting Do’s and Don’ts' with tips for effective co-parenting, including sections on protecting children from conflict, speaking respectfully about the other parent, maintaining routines, keeping issues with adults private, giving children space to feel, easing into new relationships, and offering reassurance.

    Divorce / Separation Co-parenting Do's Dont's

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  • A printable guide titled 'How to Talk to Your Child About Their Sibling's Mental Health' from Attached Kids with tips such as choosing a calm time to talk, keeping it simple and honest, reassuring their role in the family, explaining fair versus equal support, asking for support, talking about feelings, and making time for them. Includes website, contact info, and icons for website, blog, courses, and social media.

    How to Talk to Siblings

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  • Infographic titled 'How to Respond to Suicidality & Self-Harm' with guidelines from Attatched Kids, including sections on grounding yourself, not dismissing or shaming, asking gently, focusing on safety, offering comfort, knowing when to reach out, and resources for families, along with contact information and website links.

    Responding to Suicidality / Self Harm

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  • A guide titled 'What to Say: Talking to Kids About Trauma' with sections on starting the conversation, clarifying understanding, building a story, normalizing feelings, keeping the door open, using clear language, and offering reassurance. Includes text and icons for website, blog, courses, social media, and contact info.

    Talking to Kids About Trauma

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  • An infographic titled 'The Building Blocks of Children's Mental Health' showing a colorful block diagram with blocks labeled: 'Basic Physical Needs' including shelter, nutrition, hydration, sleep, movement; 'Safe, Stable, and Nurturing Relationships' including connection, attunement, responsiveness, emotional safety; 'Routine & Consistency' including boundaries, predictability, daily rhythms; 'Play & Joy' including self-confidence, unstructured play, creative expression; 'Emotional Literacy & Regulation Skills' including naming feelings, body awareness, deep breathing; and 'Resilience & Coping' including flexibility, adaptation, problem-solving. The diagram features cartoon characters of brains with arms and legs, one superhero-like with a red cape and mask, another lifting weights, and a third with a lightbulb over its head. The logo at the top says 'Attached Kids' and the bottom includes contact information and website links.

    Building Blocks of Children's Mental Health

    The building blocks to support children's wellbeing and help them thrive.

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  • Infographic titled 'Praise' from Attached Kids providing tips on positive reinforcement, including being specific, ending the day positively, praising often, praising immediately when possible, and praising effort over results.

    Effective Praise

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  • Step-by-step guide on creating a calming zone for children, with instructions on involving kids, adding comfort items, including calming activities, using signs and pictures, and adding journaling materials.

    How to Create a Calming Zone

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  • Poster with tips for responding to tantrums and big feelings in children, including ensuring safety, staying calm, acknowledging feelings, offering safe alternatives, waiting it out, and understanding tantrums as normal development.

    How to Respond to Tantrums & Big Feelings

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  • A poster titled "How to Validate Your Child's Emotions" by Attached Kids, listing six steps to validate children's emotions, including tips such as checking in with oneself, conveying understanding, replacing "but" with "because," validating emotions, setting boundaries while validating, and teaching that all emotions are okay. The poster features a teal and white color scheme, with icons and a QR code at the bottom for website, blog, and courses.

    How to Validate - Children

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  • An informational poster titled "How to Validate Your Teen’s Emotions" from Attached Kids, featuring tips on emotional validation and communication strategies. The poster includes step-by-step instructions, a logo at the top, and contact information at the bottom.

    How to Validate - Teens

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  • Infographic titled "Sleep Tips by Age" from Attached Kids. It provides sleep tips for different age groups: Infants (0-12 months), Toddlers (1-3 years), Preschoolers (3-5 years), School-Age (6-12 years), and Teens (13-18 years). It also includes a section on when to consult a professional and a note about resources for sleep support. The infographic has a logo of Attached Kids at the top and website, social media, and contact information at the bottom.

    Sleep Tips by Age

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