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Self-regulation toolkit for parents and caregivers - printable guide.

🌿 Steady Steps for Parents: The Self-Regulation Toolkit

 

Parent & Family Resource

 

A gentle, practical guide to growing steadiness in everyday life.

 

Steady Steps for Parents is a therapist-created toolkit designed to help you pause, notice, and choose steady actions — even on the busiest days. Grounded in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), this 27-page Expanded Pack builds on the free Mini Guide (found in our Free Mindfulness Library for Parents) and offers clear, flexible strategies for building resilience without pressure or perfection.

 

Through six supportive sections, you’ll explore what it means to stop, notice, and choose again — creating calm that’s realistic, repeatable, and rooted in compassion.

 

Inside this resource:


🧭 Part 1 – The Foundation of Self-Regulation
Learn why awareness + action matter, and how the simple formula “Stop → Notice → Choose” creates steadier moments.

 

🌱 Part 2 – Everyday Practices for Parents
10 gentle Awareness + Action practices for real-life moments — from morning rushes to bedtime stress.

 

🪞 Part 3 – Reflection Tools
Guided journaling prompts to help you spot patterns, celebrate growth, and rediscover your ability to steady again and again.

 

📊 Part 4 – Trackers for Awareness & Growth
Daily and monthly tools to notice how steady steps build over time.

 

📝 Part 5 – The Triggers + Steady Steps Journal
A flexible space to capture what sets you off, how you respond, and what helps you return to calm — building your personal “playbook.”

 

🃏 Part 6 – Printable Steady Step Cards
Simple cut-out reminders you can keep close — in your wallet, on your desk, or taped to the fridge — so calm is always within reach.

 

🌤 Closing Reflection
An invitation to pause and return to what already matters most: growing steady hearts in your family.

 

Why it matters:
Parenting brings noise, mess, laughter, and love — sometimes all at once. Steady Steps for Parents helps you practice steadiness your way: one pause, one breath, one steady step at a time.
 

Digital PDF | 27 pages of guided reflection, mindfulness tools, and printable resources


Perfect for parents, caregivers, and therapists supporting mindful families with children ages 4–10

 

🪴 Mindful Living Resources™ — gentle ACT-based tools for growing steady hearts.

Steady Steps for Parents: The Self-Regulation Toolkit

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