All Blog articles – Page 5
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BlogMental Health: You can make a difference
Finding a child or youth is battling with their mental health can be the hardest part of youth and children’s work. Surveys tell us this is all too common, NHS chaplain and youth worker, Andrew Bennett helps us believe there are things we can do.
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BlogSix things you can do to help your child’s mental health during lockdown
Of course, some children are loving lockdown. No school and no early morning bus journey in the freezing cold. But some are hating it and may be hiding it well. Jenni Osborn offers some ideas to make lockdown that much better for you and your children.
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BlogLost In Lockdown, Again?
When the leaders of the UK nations announced various forms of lockdown children and parents had various reactions. Some children are thrilled that the school routine has moved to their home, others are dreading weeks stuck indoors and missing their mates. Some parents are wondering if there are any upsides at all. Mark Arnold gives us some tips to help us navigate these days.
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Blog4 part series on the man through the roof
Linked below are children, youth and all-age resources - all ready to use!
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Blog4 part series about Mary and Joseph
Linked below are children, young people and all-age resources - all ready to use!
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BlogTalking about sex to your children
Can you remember how you learnt about sex? Was it a VHS describing what happens using euphemistic fruit images? Was it whispers in the playground? Was it graphic content seen online? How you choose to talk about sex and relationships with your family is your ...
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BlogCome thou unexpected Christmas
Many of us will have been fighting to shatter the peaceful but one-dimensional snow globe scene of the Christmas story for years, highlighting the light and shade that makes the birth of Jesus such an epic tale. But something about reading it in the light of the ups and downs of 2020 has made the unexpected parts of the story stand out more than ever before. Diving into them can help us explore our sense of confusion, exhaustion, disappointment and excitement at celebrating Christmas on shifting snow (or sand, who knows with this year!).
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BlogChristmas rebooted
Christmas; the one time of year when you know exactly what you’re doing, right?
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BlogRevisiting safeguarding procedures during the winter
In March, we as churches across the United Kingdom were forced to make drastic changes in the way we did things. Now, as we get close to the end of the year, it may be a good time to step back and analyse how we are responding to this year’s changes in church life from a safeguarding perspective.
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BlogTerrorism and young people
The radicalisation of youth may seem a long way from your weekly youthwork, but as Claire Farley points out, young people are more at risk than we may realise
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BlogYour children need you to play video games
Headlines about the dangers of video games may not be so prevalent, but most parents are nervous about the content of games and the time spent on them. Youth and Children’s Work Game Boy columnist, Andy Robertson, suggests the answer may be to play video games yourself. Yes really.
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BlogReconnecting post-lockdown
Whether you have been running groups in person this autumn, are still online, or just too frightened to do anything at all, Joel Harris has some wisdom for how to re-connect that can shape whatever you are doing or intend to do.
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BlogThe first youth worker: what can we learn from an ancient mentor?
Who was the first Christian youth worker? If you’re thinking strictly in terms of the modern profession, then the answer may lie in names like George Williams, who set up the YMCA in the 1840s, or Hannah More, who set up a kind of Sunday school over 50 years earlier. But if you want to think of the question another way - in terms of who first engaged with young people in a way that looks something like modern youth work - then you need to go further back. Actually, a lot further.
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Blog4 part series on being Church
Linked below are children, young people and all-age resources - all ready to use!
