Together we can end the current child mental health crisis

Wee Seeds Social Impact Report - 2023

What do you do if your child is showing signs of frustration, or anger, or anxiety? How do you support them to learn regulation and emotional literacy? How do their brains work? How do you connect with them?

For many parents and carers, they simply don’t know where to start. This is highlighted in the Early Years Scotland Mental Health, Happiness and Wellbeing Report. Then when parents turn to social media, or the internet, they’re faced with a barrage of advice which often feels overwhelming, in an already overwhelmed world.

Some may bury their heads in the sand, bribe their kids with a magazine during a supermarket meltdown, or turn to You Tube for distraction. We’ve all been there!

Many parents don’t understand they have a critically important role to play in holding their child’s emotions, until they can work out how to deal with them, or teaching their kids that it’s OK to feel sad, and frustrated, and how to cope with these big feelings.

At Wee Seeds, we believe in helping parents, carers, and grown ups working with early years children, to positively shape the mental health of the next generation by empowering them to teach wellbeing skills.

We believe that together we can help end the growing mental health crisis in our young people - because they can’t do it themselves.

Figures for early years kids are difficult to source, but we do know broadly speaking that children’s mental health is getting worse. In their recent report, the Royal College of Psychiatrists highlights that prior to the Covid-19 pandemic, more than 100,000 (5.5%) of 2 to 4 year olds struggled with anxiety, behavioural disorders and neurodevelopmental disorders (England only). The RCPsych report calls for urgent action to support the youngest in society - and we support that call.

In the last three years, the likelihood of young people having a mental health problem has increased by 50%. The Good Childhood Report 2022 shows that children's happiness continues to decline. Now, five children in a classroom of 30 are likely to have a mental health problem. The Children’s Society

We owe it to the next generation, and society as a whole, to invest in supporting their wellbeing in the early years - because prevention is better than cure!

That's why we're launching our new Growing Minds social impact programme today.

Wee Seeds is set to become a social enterprise - and our mission is to giveaway mental health resources to 5,000 families in the next five years.

Help us bring calm, connection and change. You can do this in two ways:

Become a Grow Partner: Sign up to support the programme by investing in a Wellbeing tools to support your family, your nursery/school, or your workforce. All profits go back into running our Growing Minds programme.
Become a Plant Partner: Get in touch to become a partner and access free resources for your service users. We'll be re-opening applications for this again next year - so sign up for updates.

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