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Author Becky Goddard-Hill is a former social worker and child development trainer. She also holds a postgraduate diploma in Psychotherapy, is a certified life coach and a member of the National Council of Psychotherapists. Becky is also the author of a range of fun activity books focused on children’s emotional health and wellbeing. 

Becky is an award-winning blogger and runs several award-winning blogs and loves to write about many things, most especially about wellbeing and emotional health. She believes passionately in supportive communities and the healing, nurturing powers of nature and creativity. See Becky’s TEDx talk on How to Raise Kind Kids HERE

Becky Goddard-Hill Books In Order (Publication)

Children’s therapist and award-winning blogger Becky Goddard-Hill has written and co-written a number of different book series. Utilising her training and knowledge as a mum to two teenagers she has a way with words that touch both children and their parents. These books can be read in order of publication or within the individual book series.

• FINK Cards
• Create Your Own
• Collins Be You
• Collins 365 Days Of

How to Afford Time Off with Your Baby: 101 Ways to Ease the Financial Strain

A new baby brings a great deal of excitement to a household, but managing on a reduced income can be a daunting prospect. Full of top tips and creative ideas, this practical guide will help you make the right financial decisions during your pregnancy and throughout your maternity leave – whether this is 6 weeks or 6 years!

How to Afford Time Off with Your Baby will:

• help you to budget at each and every stage, from pregnancy to starting school
• offer guidance on the essential pieces of baby kit so you don’t overbuy
• propose creative ways to generate a little extra cash and achieve more with less
• advise you on how to release and save money during this critical time

With an extensive resource section full of up-to-date websites, activity groups and key advisors, How to Afford Time Off With Your Baby is an indispensable guide that will help you worry less so you can enjoy those precious moments with your new baby much more.

FINK Cards: Healthy Friendships

Help children develop and explore the skills needed to have positive and healthy friendships. These question cards will prompt conversations that will encourage young children and young people to look at the friendships they have now and how well they are working. They will also help children consider how to make new friends and how to solve problems within friendships.

The cards are essentially in four colour-coded categories:

1. Thinking about friendships you have right now. 
2. How to make friends. 
3. How to be a good friend. 
4. How to manage friendship difficulties. 

The cards can be used at home by families to help children explore ideas around friendships in a safe and supportive environment. They can be used randomly as conversation starters at dinner time or more specifically as issues arise. The cards enable difficult issues to be addressed and start conversations that may not naturally arise. They let children know you are comfortable and interested in talking about their friendships.

In schools and youth groups, these cards can be used in sessions or lessons on friendships and personal and social development to initiate discussions. These can be teacher-led or chosen by the children. They can also be used in conflict resolutions or skill development sessions one-on-one with children who need support in these areas. 

Therapeutically these cards can be used to help focus children in or friendship issues and prompt discussions about any changes they need to make and skills they need to develop. Sometimes the questions will help clarify thoughts, sometimes they will help the children reflect on current situations and sometimes they will prompt them to explore new ways forward.

FINK Cards: Developing Confidence

Conversations to develop children’s confidence, self-esteem and self belief

Create Your Own Happy: Activities to boost children’s happiness and emotional resilience

Support children’s emotional wellbeing and boost happiness.

Create Your Own Happy gives kids the tools they need to improve their emotional resilience, grow in confidence and learn how to make happy happen – both for themselves and for those around them.

Packed with simple, fun activities children can do on their own or with friends and family, this book will help them explore how to be resilient, positive and optimistic.

The encouraging activities and exercises will combat negative feelings and support emotional well-being, as well as building self-esteem along the way.

Empower children to shape their lives and the lives of others around them. This illustrated activity book helps them take practical steps towards creating their own happiness and positive self-esteem.

• Full of simple, practical ideas to help children to feel confident, strong and happy
• Fun activities that can be done on their own or with friends and family
• Plant a seed bomb outdoors, make a happy playlist or create a recycling monster
• Learn about the surprising science behind emotions along the way
• From award-winning parenting bloggers

FINK Cards: Let’s Talk about Family Budgeting

Let’s talk about Family Budgeting are a set of FINK cards that aim to help families really consider how to make spend and save their money. They enable healthy conversations about an often taboo subject. The questions encourage a problem-solving approach to money management and encourage positive action.

Be Happy Be You: The teenage guide to boost happiness and resilience

This positive and insightful guide gives you the tools to build your confidence, eliminate negative feelings and boost happiness in all areas of your life.

Being a teenager has its own unique challenges, but it’s also the perfect time to shape your own mental wellbeing and happiness. Scientists reckon 40% of your happiness is within your control, that’s A LOT of happiness and this book will help you to harness it…

There are tons of ideas to try from creating an anxiety toolkit, to planning a digital detox and meditating, plus you’ll learn the science behind why they work. Carry out the activities by yourself or with family and friends and take your happiness into your own hands!

Create Your Own Calm: Activities to overcome children’s worries, anxiety and anger

Support children’s emotional wellbeing and overcome worries.

In a world that’s increasingly chaotic and uncertain, Create Your Own Calm sets kids on a path to becoming emotionally resilient and helps them to take practical, positive steps towards being calm and happy.

• Full of simple, practical ideas to help manage feelings of stress, anger and anxiety
• Fun activities that can be done on their own or with friends and family
• Try out yoga, grow a pizza garden or go cloud watching
• Learn about the surprising science behind emotions along the way

Create Your Own Kindness: Activities to encourage children to be caring and kind

Support children’s emotional wellbeing and spread kindness.

How much better would the world be if everyone was kind to each other? Create Your Own Kindness encourages kids to be kind to themselves, other people and the world around them.

• Full of simple, practical ideas to help spread kindness
• Fun activities that can be done on their own or with friends and family
• Create a hug box, bake a kindness cake or go litter-picking
• Inspiring stories about acts of kindness

A year of nature craft and play: 52 things to make and do

Discover the treasures and pleasures of our natural world with 52 fun activities following the seasons.

Filled with crafts, gardening, games, art and science activities for children aged 7 years and up that are budget-friendly and will entertain all year round and provide ideas for a year of nature walks.

From Spring sunflower challenges to Summer mandalas, Autumn conker crafts to Winter pine cone decorations, it will inspire children to get creative with nature!

• Fun activities for every week of the year
• Easy-to-follow instructions and tips
• Colourful photographs and illustrations

365 Days of Calm: quotes, affirmations and activities to help children relax every day

Support children’s emotional wellbeing with this beautiful pocket-sized gift book.

Kids will feel calmer with encouraging quotes, positive affirmations and simple wellbeing activities – one for every day of the year. This is the perfect book to open at the beginning of the day or before bed to help create a positive mindset.

• inspirational quotes for when children are feeling worried
• positive affirmations to bring calmness and relaxation
• simple activities to do throughout the year

It’s the perfect book to open at the beginning of the day or before bed to help create a positive mindset.

365 Days of Happy: quotes, affirmations and activities to boost children’s happiness every day

Support children’s emotional wellbeing with this beautiful pocket-sized gift book.

Boost happiness with encouraging quotes, positive affirmations and simple activities – one for every day of the year. This is the perfect book to open at the beginning of the day or before bed to help create a positive mindset.

• inspirational quotes to help brighten children’s moods
• positive affirmations to build confidence and self-esteem
• simple activities to do throughout the year

It’s the perfect book to open at the beginning of the day or before bed to help create a positive mindset.

365 Days of Kind: quotes, affirmations and activities to encourage children to be kind every day

Support children’s emotional wellbeing with this beautiful pocket-sized gift book.

Spread kindness with encouraging quotes, positive affirmations and simple activities – one for every day of the year. This is the perfect book to open at the beginning of the day or before bed to help create a positive mindset.

• inspirational quotes to encourage acts of kindness
• positive affirmations to remind children to be kind to others and themselves
• simple activities to do throughout the year

It’s the perfect book to open at the beginning of the day or before bed to help create a positive mindset.

Be Confident Be You: The teenage guide to build confidence and self-esteem

This positive and insightful guide gives you the tools to build your confidence, overcome low self-esteem, and embrace opportunities in all areas of your life.

The two things you have the power to control in life are your thoughts and your actions. This is great news because these both have a huge impact on how your life turns out. Change your thoughts and you change your world.

There are tons of ideas to try from practising positive self-talk, to making a coping kit and tackling fears, plus you’ll learn the science behind why they work. Carry out the activities by yourself or with family and friends and take your confidence into your own hands!

Create Your Own Confidence: Activities to build children’s confidence and self-esteem

Support children’s emotional wellbeing and build confidence.

Filled with activities to help children build confidence and develop healthy self-esteem

This book will help your child create their own confidence with activities such as power posing, drawing, speaking, creating a confidence squad, designing a control wheel and even making paper!

Empower children to believe in themselves and develop a positive self-esteem with this illustrated activity book.

• Full of simple, practical ideas to help children to feel confident, strong and happy
• Fun activities to do on their own or with friends and family
• Try out power posing, create a control wheel or set mini goals
• Learn about the surprising science behind emotions along the way

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