Parents and Families Quick Tip Sheets

Helping Your Child Cope With Stress

Settling in Canada can be stressful. What’s more, if your family had a long journey to safety, it’s common to still feel fearful. However, this can lead your child to feeling fearful, too—and that can result in stress. In this tip sheet, you’ll learn how to recognize the signs of stress in your child. Once you know what to look for, you can work as a family to find ways to begin to feel safe again. This resource is available in multiple languages for download.

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Guiding Your Child’s Behaviour

When children are anxious, it often results in difficult behaviour. No matter how your child behaves, it’s important to be consistent, but also understanding, patient and loving. This resource is available in multiple languages for download.

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Getting Ready for Kindergarten

Use the checklist to create a healthy daily routine that can help your child get ready for school. This resource is available in multiple languages for download.

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Creating Routines for Your Child

Repeated tasks make a routine that can help your child to feel relaxed and secure. This resource is available in multiple languages for download.

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10 Tips for Stopping Aggression

The ten tips in this sheet can help you to respond calmly and consistently to aggressive behaviour. This resource is available in multiple languages for download.

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Children Learn Through Play

When children play, they’re learning with their bodies by touching, seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting and moving. Every day, there’s something new to discover. Play also helps them to build social skills, language skills and more! This resource is available in multiple languages for download.

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New and Improved Multilingual Parent Resource: All About Care for Newcomer Children (CNC)

A new and improved version of one of our most popular resources, is now available in 21 languages and ready for use in all provinces. All About CNC will help parents understand, what they can expect from CNC, important things to remember - like staying on-site, and information they need to share with CNC staff. It also has a section on the bottom, where you can personalize the document to communicate information that is specific to your SPO/CNC program.