Welcome to the Keep Your Cool Toolbox

 
 

My name is Dr Mine Conkbayir. I’m mum to a beautiful daughter, Delilah and I’m an award-winning Early Years author, trainer and consultant.
 
I designed this app to help parents, foster carers, childminders, Early Years practitioners and teachers to access FREE, quick and effective ways to help young children and teenagers to better manage their emotions. 

We all know what it feels like when we are worried, anxious, stressed, angry, or overwhelmed. The more intense the emotion, the more extreme our emotional responses and behaviour can become.

It is usually when it all gets too much, that a child is labelled ‘naughty’, ‘challenging’ or is said to be having a ‘tantrum’. All three are terms I strongly dislike because they fail to help us understand that what is actually happening is that the child has become dysregulated (unable to manage their emotional responses) and what tends to follow is some sort of punishment that only serves to further humiliate and frustrate the child. For the sake of our children’s mental health and self-worth, we must move away from these terms. 


What if you could help them to prevent ‘flipping their lid’ in the first instance?


The tools in this Toolbox are provided by Early Years professionals, mindfulness experts, parents and foster carers - each of whom feature in this app. Give it a go!

Toolbox

Click the images for more details about each of the tools below.


Name It To Tame It

Mindful Moments

Get Active!

Questions, Questions

Puzzle Power

Tap It Out

Act It Out

Troublesome Triggers

Take A Break

Soothing Sounds

Lost in Music

And Breathe!

Here's What Users Are Saying

“I believe this free and really accessible app designed by Dr Mine Conkbayir is amazing and provides wonderfully simple but effective strategies to sooth and calm children and young people.

Professor Chris Pascal OBE

Director, the Centre for Research in Early Childhood

“The app provides an informative approach to support children (and adults) to self-regulate and build their understanding of their own behaviour and emotions, which in a post-COVID climate is particularly helpful”.

Sarah da Silva Vacas

Educator, Trafford College Group

“This Keep Your Cool Toolbox is fantastic! It is extremely easy to use and is so helpful to parents of children of all ages, professionals working with children and for their own families”.

Jenny Ainsworth 

JA Happy House Childminding

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