I am a Child
Understand your feelings, learn calming tools, and build confidence in small steps.
A creative and interactive space for children, parents, and teachers to understand emotions, learning difficulties, confidence, and simple counselling strategies.
Small steps, kind words, and supportive adults can help every child move forward.
Select a role to see simple counselling guidance designed for that person.
Understand your feelings, learn calming tools, and build confidence in small steps.
Learn how to respond with support, reduce pressure, and encourage effort.
Support learning difficulties with kind language, clear steps, and timely referral.
Your feelings are important. You can learn to name your feelings, ask for help, try again after mistakes, and use simple tools when schoolwork feels hard.
Children need patience, routine, encouragement, and emotional safety. When parents praise effort and listen calmly, children become more confident and willing to learn.
A child who struggles may not be lazy. They may need clearer instructions, extra practice, emotional support, or counselling referral.
Click an emotion and read a simple supportive tip.
This box gives children quick tools to use when they feel stressed, angry, or worried.
Parents play an important role in improving a child's emotional wellbeing, confidence, and academic progress.
A child's anger, silence, crying, or homework avoidance may be a sign of stress, fear of failure, or low confidence.
Instead of: You never study.
Say: Let's do this work in small steps.
When parents praise effort, the child feels encouraged to keep trying. Marks are important, but effort builds confidence.
Keep a fixed homework time, give short breaks, reduce mobile distraction, and divide difficult tasks into small parts.
Seek counselling support if the child avoids schoolwork, cries often, gets angry frequently, says negative things about self, or repeatedly struggles in reading, writing, or math.
Supportive teachers can reduce shame, improve learning, and identify children who need counselling support.
If a child repeatedly struggles with reading, writing, spelling, concentration, or word problems, avoid labelling them as lazy. They may have a skill gap.
Use short instructions. For example: read the question, underline keywords, choose the operation, then solve slowly.
Flashcards, worksheets, drawing, word games, emotion cards, and reward stickers can increase participation and confidence.
Refer to a counsellor if the child avoids work, becomes anxious during tests, shows withdrawal or anger, or has repeated academic failure.
These simple strategies can help children with reading, writing, and Mathematics word problems.
Break long words into small sounds or syllables. Read slowly and repeat difficult words.
Listen to the word, say it aloud, break it into sounds, and then write it carefully.
Underline keywords like total, remaining, each, and shared equally to choose the correct operation.
Write support, strengths, achievements, and goals. Your tree will fill with your words.
These activities can be used in child counselling sessions, classrooms, or home practice.
For confidence and self-awareness.
For naming and rating emotions.
For understanding links between thoughts and actions.
For breathing, grounding, and self-talk.
These signs do not mean that a child is “bad” or “weak.” They are signals that the child may need understanding, support, and professional help.
Repeated aggression, frequent fights, lying, stealing, rule breaking, extreme stubbornness, hyperactivity, impulsive actions, or sudden school refusal.
Frequent crying, sadness, fear, anger outbursts, mood changes, irritability, sleep or appetite changes, or feeling worried most of the time.
Withdrawal from friends or family, difficulty making friends, bullying others, being bullied, avoiding group activities, or suddenly becoming very quiet.
Low confidence, negative self-talk, repeated academic failure, attention problems, fear of mistakes, trauma reactions, or saying “I am useless” or “I cannot do anything.”
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School of Professional Psychology, University of Management and Technology, Johar Town, Lahore. Offers clinical counselling services, appointment support, and psychoeducational activities.
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Visit official siteLahore-based support for children and families, including psychological assessment, counselling sessions, learning difficulties, ADHD, autism, speech and language support, and parent training.
Visit official siteA long-running Lahore mental health organization providing psychiatric treatment, psychosocial rehabilitation, and support programs, including services related to children with special needs.
Visit official siteProvides outpatient psychotherapy and psychiatric services. Their Lahore office is listed in DHA, Lahore.
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