💛 Beyond the Monster – Parent & Family Guide (downloadable)
$39.00
Practical, easy-to-use tools for supporting children’s emotional wellbeing at home. This guide helps families build confidence, understand emotions, and manage anxiety through simple strategies and printable resources designed for real family life. Built around the book, ‘There a Monster on my Shoulder’.
Description
Beyond the Monster – Family Guide
The Beyond the Monster – Family Guide has been created to help parents and caregivers continue the emotional learning explored in There’s a Monster on My Shoulder within the home environment.
Using simple, child-friendly language and practical activities, this guide supports families to have meaningful conversations about worries, anxious thoughts, big feelings, resilience, self-awareness, and emotional regulation.
Created by author Erin Bernardi, the guide helps children understand that they are not their thoughts or worries — they can notice their feelings, calm their bodies, and choose helpful ways to respond.
Designed for children aged approximately 4–12 years, the activities are flexible, gentle, and easy to implement at home, whether through one-on-one conversations, calming routines, reflection activities, or shared reading experiences.
The guide may include:
- Conversation starters and discussion prompts
- At-home emotional regulation activities
- Mindfulness and calming strategies
- Reflection worksheets and creative tasks
- Printable affirmation cards and visual supports
- “Small Brave Steps” confidence-building activities
- Parent support tools and emotional coaching prompts
- Resources to strengthen emotional awareness and resilience at home
The guide is designed to work alongside the wider Beyond the Monster program, helping to create consistent language and approaches between school, therapy, and home.
Rather than focusing on “fixing” emotions, the program encourages children to develop self-awareness, recognise their thoughts and feelings safely, and build confidence in their ability to respond calmly and thoughtfully.
This resource is ideal for families wanting to support children with:
- Anxiety and worries
- Big emotions and emotional overwhelm
- Confidence and self-esteem
- School or friendship challenges
- Emotional awareness and resilience
- Mindfulness and calming strategies
Bonus Animated Read-Aloud Included
With your purchase, you will also receive a FREE animated read-aloud version of There’s a Monster on My Shoulder, narrated by author Erin Bernardi.
This engaging story experience combines animation, movement, and visual storytelling to help children connect more deeply with the book’s emotional wellbeing concepts in a calming and child-friendly way.
Perfect for:
- shared family viewing
- bedtime or calm-time routines
- emotional conversations at home
- supporting visual and auditory learners
- reinforcing the program’s key messages in an engaging format
The animated read-aloud will be sent following purchase.
Program Anchor Statement
“I am me — calm, aware, and I choose.”
📄 Licence Information
This resource is licensed for single purchaser use only.
Sharing, forwarding, or uploading this file to other platforms is not permitted.
If others would benefit from this resource, please direct them to purchase their own copy at erinjoybernardi.com.
Thank you for supporting an independent Australian creator ❤️
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