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240 guides across 20 corners. Each one opens with a routine card: the situation it is for, the system it builds, what you need and the first step. Page 5 of 6, guides 165 to 205.
Corner 05 - Talking to school Talking to School: A Parent's Guide to Meetings and Messages A calm parent guide to school communication: opening the first conversation, keeping a simple log, writing clear emails, and preparing for meetings so home and school pull in the same direction. Corner 05 - Talking to school Talking to Your Child About School Meetings How to tell your child about school meetings in a calm, age-right way: what to say before, what to share after, and how to invite their view without handing them adult worries. Corner 17 - Teens and growing independence Talking With Teens About How Their Brain Works Talk with your teenager in everyday language about attention, energy and what helps them focus, listening first and building a shared words list for home and school. Corner 01 - Executive function at home Task Initiation: Why Starting Is the Hard Part Why the first two minutes of a task can be the hardest part of the whole job, and how a tiny, visible first step and a start ritual lower the hill your child has to climb. Corner 16 - Clubs, sport and activities Team Sports and Waiting Your Turn Team sports ask for the hardest skills in public - waiting, watching, losing a turn, being substituted. Practical ways to build those skills at home and choose teams that handle them kindly. Corner 17 - Teens and growing independence Teens and Growing Independence: A Gradual Handover The handover years in one plan: pass the morning, homework and paperwork to your teenager in small stages they can succeed at, with agreed minimum standards and calm reviews. Corner 07 - School support in the UK: EHCP and SEND The Annual Review in the UK: A Parent Walkthrough What an annual review of an EHC plan generally involves: the yearly cycle, reports gathered beforehand, the meeting itself, and what the local authority does afterwards. Corner 06 - School plans in the US: Section 504 and IEPs The Annual Review: Preparing Your Notes A general guide to annual reviews in US school plan systems: what these recurring meetings are for, what paperwork usually leads up to them, and how parents prepare notes from a year of school life. Corner 20 - Printables and checklists The Backpack Checklist for the Front Door A backpack checklist fixed by the front door: what goes in the school bag each day and what changes by weekday, checked at the door in the evening and again in the morning. Corner 08 - An organised home The Backpack Reset: A Five-Minute Evening Habit A five minute evening routine that empties, checks and repacks the school bag, so mornings stop starting with lost letters, crushed snacks and missing kit. Corner 08 - An organised home The Bedroom Reset Basket One basket by the bedroom door that collects everything that does not belong in the room, turning a full tidy into a two minute sort and ending the bedroom floor drift. Corner 03 - Evening and bedtime routines The Bedtime Checklist on the Bedroom Door A short checklist on the bedroom door turns bedtime from a parent-led commentary into a list your child can run themselves: toilet, water, pyjamas, teeth, bed. Corner 20 - Printables and checklists The Calm Corner Card Set Design a calm corner card set for home: choice cards for quiet activities, breathing prompt cards, and a simple how the corner works card, made with the child in a calm moment. Corner 11 - Emotional weather at home The Calm Corner: A Quiet Space at Home Setting up one quiet corner at home that anyone can use: where to put it, what to keep there, how to introduce it in calm times, and how adults model using it themselves first. Corner 13 - Screens and gaming agreements The End-of-Game Problem: Stopping Without a War Why stopping a game is the hardest moment of screen time, and a warning, timer and save-and-close routine that makes endings predictable. Corner 05 - Talking to school The First Conversation With a New Teacher How to introduce your child to a new teacher early in the year: what to share, what to leave for later, and how a short friendly first contact makes every later conversation easier. Corner 16 - Clubs, sport and activities The First Session: Preparing for New Groups First sessions decide whether an activity feels safe: preview the place and the leader, arrive early, agree a parent position, and debrief gently afterwards. Corner 09 - Time and timers The Five-Minute Warning, Done Well A five-minute warning that is genuinely five minutes, given once and clearly, with a place for unfinished things and a next step that is ready to land on. Corner 04 - Homework systems The Friday Folder: A Weekly Homework Reset Ten minutes on Friday resets the homework week: empty the bag, sort the papers, check the planner ahead and restock the station, so Monday starts clean. Corner 20 - Printables and checklists The Holiday Packing Checklist for Kids A holiday packing checklist children can run themselves: clothes by day or by type, the comfort items section, a packed-by-them tick column, and a return-trip side for coming home. Corner 05 - Talking to school The Home-School Communication Book How a simple home-school communication book works: who writes in it, how often, what a good entry looks like, and how to keep it brief enough to survive busy weeks. Corner 04 - Homework systems The Homework Station: One Place, Same Kit A homework station is one place with the same kit always in it: pencils, ruler, rubber, paper and a folder. No hunting, no delays disguised as looking for a sharpener. Corner 04 - Homework systems The Homework Timer: Work Bursts and Breaks A timer turns homework into bursts and breaks: short, visible periods of work followed by real rest. The timer, not the parent, says when to stop and start. Corner 03 - Evening and bedtime routines The Landing Strip: First Ten Minutes Home The first ten minutes home set the tone for the whole evening. A landing strip for bags, shoes and feelings gives everyone a soft arrival instead of a pile-up at the door. Corner 07 - School support in the UK: EHCP and SEND The Local Offer: Finding Your Council's SEND Pages What the Local Offer is, where to find your own council's version, what it usually lists, and how parents use it as a directory for local SEND information and services. Corner 20 - Printables and checklists The Morning Checklist Printable: Designing Your Own Design a morning checklist your child can tick: the real steps from waking to the front door, in order, with pictures for younger children and a finish line they control. Corner 02 - Morning routines The Night-Before Launch Pad How a single launch pad by the door, packed for five minutes each evening, removes the morning's searching and deciding and gives the next day a ready-made start. Corner 01 - Executive function at home The Parent as External Memory: Scaffolding That Helps How parents already act as their child's external memory, and how to move that job onto charts, places and objects step by step, so support helps without exhausting the helper. Corner 11 - Emotional weather at home The Parent Pause: Buying Yourself Ten Seconds How to buy yourself ten seconds before you respond when feelings rise at home: what to do with your hands, breath and feet, and the short phrases that hold the gap kindly. Corner 01 - Executive function at home The Pause Button: Helping a Child Stop and Think How a practised pause - a word, a place, a breath and a next step agreed in calm times - gives a child a way to stop mid-moment at home, without shame and without lectures. Corner 02 - Morning routines The Shoe-and-Bag Station by the Door How to design the doorway station - hooks at child height, a shoe home per pair, bag parking and a last-look shelf - so the final minute of leaving stops being the loudest. Corner 17 - Teens and growing independence The Teen Bedroom: Mess, Autonomy and Minimum Standards Respect your teenager privacy while holding a short, agreed floor for their room: safety, hygiene and shared-space rules, with a weekly reset you do not do for them. Corner 18 - Parent stamina The Ten-Minute Reset for Parents A short, planned pause that actually restores you: step out, move, breathe and return, built into the day before pressure spills over. Corner 14 - Chores and pocket money The Two-Minute Tidy and Other Micro-Chores Micro-chores explained: tiny, timed, finishable jobs like the two-minute tidy that build momentum on days when a full chore feels like too much. Corner 10 - Transitions and warnings The Two-Minute Warning and the Landing Phrase A two-minute warning works when it is short, final and paired with a landing phrase - one sentence that tells a child exactly what happens next, and where. Corner 18 - Parent stamina The Two-Parent Tag Team: Sharing the Hard Hours Share the hardest hours fairly when there are two parents: named lead times, a tap-out signal, weekly planning, and handovers that do not restart the argument. Corner 20 - Printables and checklists The Weekly Family Planner Page A weekly family planner page for the fridge or hallway: seven day columns, the fixed anchors of the week, school and club items, and a small box for what is different this week. Corner 08 - An organised home The Weekly Family Tidy With a Timer A short weekly tidy where a timer, not a parent, sets the pace: one room each, a way station basket for homeless items, music on, and a hard stop when the timer ends. Corner 09 - Time and timers Time and Timers: Helping Your Child Feel Time Passing Why spoken minutes so often slide past a child, and how visible timers, calm time checks and simple practice turn passing time into information the whole family can use. Corner 01 - Executive function at home Time Blindness at Home: Why Five Minutes Means Nothing Why warnings like five more minutes often fail to land, and how visible timers, time checks and honest comparisons make passing time something a child can see and use. Corner 09 - Time and timers Time Checks Instead of Time Warnings How small, neutral time checks - how much has gone, how much is left, what is next - replace the single late warning that so often lands as an alarm.