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Zippy's Friends - English / enska
Helping your child to benefit from Zippy's Friends
Zippy’s Friends teaches young children how to cope with everyday difficulties. It is taught in schools by specially trained teachers, but as a parent you can do a lot to support the programme and help your child.
The programme is divided into six modules and we have prepared tips and activities for each of them. Just click on the topic you want.
- Feelings
- Communication
- Friendship
- Conflict resolution
- Dealing with change and loss
- Coping
Use whichever ideas seem most suitable for you and your child.
Zippy’s Friends encourages children to think of many different ways to cope with difficult situations and feelings. The only rules are that any solution they choose must improve the situation or make them feel better about it and must not hurt anyone else.
Tips
- Hold regular family meetings on practical issues. If difficult emotional issues arise – a serious argument, a death in the family – you can use the same familiar format.
- Some of the activities here are ideal for playing on car and train journeys.
- Talk about feelings. Ask your child about the feelings of characters in stories and on television. Tell you child how you feel. Ask them how they feel – and why.
- When change is approaching – new home, new school, new baby – talk to your child about their expectations.
Recipes for homemade playdough (trölladeig)
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| Module 1: Feelings | Module 2: Communication | Module 3: Friendship |
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| Module 4: Conflict resolution | Module 5: Dealing with change and loss |
Module 6: We cope! |
