What is mental health?
We all have mental health, just as we all have physical health. Being mentally healthy means that we feel good about ourselves, make and keep positive relationships with others and can feel and manage the full range of emotions.
These can range from happiness, excitement and curiosity through to less comfortable feelings such as anger, fear or sadness.
Good mental health allows us to cope with life’s ups and downs, to feel in control of our lives and to ask for help from others when we need support.
For Children’s Mental Health Week in school, working alongside the charity Place2Be, we are encouraging children (and adults) to talk about their mental health and consider how they have grown and how they can help others to grow.
Growing together is about growing emotionally and finding ways to help each other grow. Challenges and setbacks can help us to grow and adapt and trying new things can help us to move beyond our comfort zone into a new realm of possibility and potential. However, emotional growth is often a gradual process that happens over time, and sometimes we might feel a bit ‘stuck’.
This week we will be sending out information on how to help promote well being and positive mental health with your children and also links to resources to help support both you and your children to stay mentally healthy.
