Caring for the Carers is a week-long webinar series designed to support school staff, counsellors, educators, and parents in supporting children and themselves during an ongoing crisis and disruption to schooling and daily life.
The sessions provide practical psychosocial strategies, emotional support frameworks, and guidance for navigating uncertainty, loss, stress, and disrupted learning environments.
Speaker
Grainne Parish
Target Audience
Parents
Key Focus
Supporting parents to manage children’s screen time in a balanced and healthy way while maintaining wellbeing, learning engagement, and family routines during periods of home-based or online schooling.
Key Concepts / Goals
• Understanding the role of screens in learning, connection, and daily life during disrupted schooling.
• Differentiating between productive screen use (learning, communication) and passive or excessive screen use.
• Creating realistic and healthy screen boundaries without increasing family conflict.
• Supporting children’s wellbeing through routines that include movement, rest, and offline activities.
• Helping children transition on and off devices more smoothly.
• Practical strategies for reducing screen-related stress for both parents and children.
• Encouraging balance between digital learning, play, rest, and family connection.
We are not an emergency service, if you or someone you know is in crisis, please go to the emergency department at Al Jalila Children’s Hospital or Rashid Hospital
