Wellbeing

Mother’s day

This Sunday is Mother’s day. Leading parenting expert Justin Coulson has written 4 tips for Dads to help Mum’s wellbeing that you may find helpful.

1. “Help mum develop a sense of time affluence.
   
   We feel at peace when we don’t feel stressed and rushed. Build a sense of time affluence (or abundance, if you prefer) by:

• Walking, rather than driving (and not for exercise! Just to help slow the pace of life.)
• Having a YOYO night (You’re On Your Own) where the kids sort themselves out with leftovers or cheese toasties.
• Creating a system where mum doesn’t have to feel obliged to do everything for everyone, every time.

2. Be open to mum's influence.

Seriously.Stop being a bossy boots and let mum have a clearer, louder voice. Seek her counsel and invite her opinions.

3. Ask how you can help.

This is big.But do you know what’s bigger? Just muck in and help without asking.It shouldn’t be up to mum to have to tell everyone how to help and when to help and hassle them for not helping already. Get stuff done without needing to be asked.This means remembering to do stuff like empty the garbage or run the bins to the street, cleaning the kitchen, putting a load of washing on... you know! All that stuff that the cleaning fairy usually does.

4. Drop your agenda and help her with hers.

And elevate her by treating her so well that your daughters will know how a man ought to treat them when they’re bigger (or even now), and so that your sons have no doubt how they ought to treat their partner when they are old enough.The greatest compliment any dad could ever hear is

"You always treated mum like she was the most wonderful woman in the world."

Bring that first-date mentality to every interaction”.

National Walk Safely to school Day

Friday 20th May is National Walk Safely to School day. Now in its 23rd year, the annual campaign encourages all primary school children, their parents and carers to walk safely and regularly to school. The event seeks to promote road safety, health, public transport and the environment. The objectives of National Walk Safely to School Day are:

• To encourage parents and carers to walk regularly with their children, all or part of the way to school.
• To promote the health benefits of walking and create regular walking habits.
• To help children develop vital road crossing skills and ensure children up to the age of 10 years hold an adult’s hand when crossing the road.
• To reduce car dependency and traffic congestion, especially around schools.
• To reduce the level of air pollution created by motor vehicles.
• To promote the use of public transport.

At SFS we will celebrate this day on Monday 23rd May. We encourage as many children as possible to walk to school or at least part of the way to school on this day. 

We will have 2 meeting points where we will have a walking school bus lead by some teachers. 

Parents can either drop their children off at this meeting point and walk to school with the staff or join the staff and walk to school with your children. When we arrive at school we will make our way to the school oval and do a lap of the oval. The two meeting points are:

• The Lynbrook community centre
• Figtree Reserve (corner of Alymer Rd and Waterbrush crescent)

We will meet at these two points at 8am and will be ready to leave by 8.10am.

Let’s get healthy together and walk to school!

SFS Twilight Market and Art show

We are eagerly anticipating our annual SFS Twilight Community market and Art Show which will be held on Thursday 3rd November from 5pm until 8pm. We are still looking for more stallholders particularly from our SFS school community. 

Get together with your family and come up with an idea of something you could make and sell at the market. For all enquiries or for an expression of interest form, please contact rlenko@sfslynbrook.catholic.edu.au

Lunchtime Lego club

This week we started our Lunchtime lego club. This will run each Tuesday during 2nd lunch in learning space 1. This club is for children who have trouble with socials skills or lack confidence to make friends. Lego clubs help children to develop and reinforce play and social skills. Why Lego? Lego play therapy activities are known to help children to improve their verbal and non- verbal communication, joint task focus, sharing and turn-taking, as well as their collaborative problem-solving skills.

Upcoming Webinar for Parents Dr Justin Coulson presents: Encouraging good behaviour

We have a membership with Parenting Ideas, one of Australia’s most trusted sources of parenting education and support. As part of this membership, all the parents and carers in our community can attend this webinar at no cost.

Discipline is one of the most confusing and challenging topics that parents grapple with. When you look up the word discipline in the dictionary the first definition is “punishment”. But this is a relatively new way of understanding the word. Until a couple of hundred years ago, to be disciplined meant to be shown a way to follow. This webinar, presented by Dr Justin Coulson is for every parent who has ever been so desperate to get their kids to ‘behave’ that they’ve tried Triple P, Super-Nanny, 1-2-3 Magic, and pretty much everything else out there, and still found themselves stuck. It explores the concept of discipline and how parents can encourage good behaviour in children. 

Key learning and discussion points include: 

• why the centuries-old strategies we still cling to should be left in the past 

• how we get discipline wrong and why 

• real world examples of discipline that are as imperfect as parents and their kids, but that still work 

• ideas for discipline that turn everything you thought you knew about the topic on its head • applicable strategies for everyone 

The webinar will be held on 8 June 2022 at 8-9 PM AEST.

To redeem your webinar click or copy and paste this link: https://www.parentingideas.com.au/parent-resources/parent-webinars/webinar-encouraging-good-behaviour

1. Click ‘Add to cart’ 

2. Click ‘View cart’ 

3. Enter the coupon code ENCOURAGE and click ‘Apply’ 

4. Enter our organisation’s name to verify your eligibility. The $39 discount will then be applied. 

5. Click ‘Proceed to checkout’ 

6. Fill in your account details. These are the details you will use to login to your account and access your webinar and resources. 

7. Click ‘Place Order’ This offer is valid until 8 September 2022. 

If you’re unable to make the broadcast time, just register anyway and you will get access to the recording.

If you have any concerns about the wellbeing of your child, please do not hesitate to contact me.rlenko@sfslynbrook.catholic.edu.au

Rachel Lenko

Student Wellbeing Leader