Resources for Parents

ParentTV

ParentTV offers hundreds of on-demand videos to support the parenting and care of children from birth to teens. ParentTV is sponsored by RAPT for all RCHK parents. It is a great resource with short videos and resources to help with the tricky job of parenting. To access the resources, go to https://parenttv.com/membership and use the code “rchk”.

Supporting Wellbeing at Home

We know that our RCHK parents are keen to assist in the development of Wellbeing at RCHK, and we are often asked about the ways in which they can support students in the key areas that we focus on.

Some useful resources for supporting students can be found here.

What We Value: The Roots of Wellbeing at RCHK

What We Learn: The Routes to Wellbeing at RCHK

Character Strengths
At RCHK we use the VIA classification of Character Strengths, which can be found here. You can find out your own strengths, and equip yourself to talk to you about your childrens’. Lea Waters also offers suggestions for strengths-based parenting on her website blog and in her book, The Strength Switch.

Mindfulness
There are many excellent apps and sites for mindfulness available. Smiling Mind is used in Year 4 as a programme shared with students, but also offers great options for at home practice for children, teenagers and adults.

Resilience
How To Build Resilience In Your Family – What To Do When Your Family Is Struggling: this article from The Greater Good Magazine gives some suggestions for ways to face challenging times with your family.

Our uniquely designed Character Strength Cards are a handy resource for use at home, and even on the go, especially for those in the Primary years.

These cards have been created by using imagery inspired by our Year 3 students, and wording from students in Year 6.

Each card incorporates the concept of Positive Education being at the #HeartOfRCHK, and features character illustrations wearing the RCHK uniform shirts.

A complete set of 24 cards can be purchased in the RCHK Stationery Shop for only HK$9!

Dealing with emotions:
There is no good or bad emotions, what matters is how we deal with them. When your child is throwing a tantrum, use ‘Time In’ strategy for challenging behaviours:

Stay with your child when he/she is asked to calm down. Once he/she is calm, hug him/her, and talk about the situation and encourage your child to talk about the causes, and ways to deal with similar situations.

1. Give notice promptly
2. Empathise with your child, e.g. You are crying because you can’t fix this.
3. Recognise the emotion, give it a name (sad, disappointed, frustrated), e.g. Now you are feeling frustrated.
4. Allow your child to express his/her emotion through different ways, e.g. stress ball, have a quiet space, cry
5. Talk to your child once him/her is calm, recall the situation/scenario
6. Brainstorm ways to deal with frustration/disappointment, e.g. tell parents, leave the scene, deep breath, self talk
7. Encourage your child to use the ways to express feelings
8. Discuss the situations/feeling of the main characters when reading books, or encountering similar situations during outing

Meaning and Purpose
One of the areas that many people struggle with is finding purpose and meaning for themselves. Knowing your purpose is part of having a sense of accomplishment and contributes to positive emotions. The Purpose Challenge is designed to help teenagers to find their purpose, and offers supportive tools for adults and students as well.