Blogs & Articles

Welcome to Developing Matters CIC articles for families and schools, and most importantly how we can best support our children and young people. The topics are helpful for you to navigate the busy world and understand your children and young people at a deeper level. Knowledge of how the brain works is very powerful and can be a strategy for dealing with worries, stresses, life events and transitions. Hopefully we can all learn how to live more mindfully in this busy world.

Fight, Flight, Freeze

What does fight, flight, freeze look like in children? Fight, flight, freeze in the modern-day world can be triggered for all sorts of reasons, and generally not because we are

The Amygdala

Welcome to Developing Matters CIC articles for families and schools, and most importantly how we can best support our children and young people. The topics are helpful for you to

Mindful Strategies List

A Mindful Strategy List for Children and Young People The best way to live more mindfully, help settle the busy mind, calm the fight/flight/freeze response, and help stress levels is