The Emp Translator Cards
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The Emp Translator Cards ✨
The Emp Translator Cards:
From power struggles to connection….
From confusing behaviour to clearer responses…
Child Psychology made simple by Dr Nat (Educational Psychologist).
The Emp Translator Cards:
From behviour to need at a glance.
For the moments when behaviour feels confusing, exhausting, or triggering, these cards help busy parents pause and make sense of what is really going on underneath.
They support you to respond with understanding rather than reaction, even when you might be tired, rushed, or unsure what your child needs.
Designed for busy parents who want to understand their child’s behaviour without wading through theory, these cards offer quick, practical insight in real moments.
They help reduce power struggles, lower emotional intensity, and support calmer responses that meet the need beneath the behaviour.
Created by an Educational Psychologist, this is a simple, psychologically informed way to move from reaction to connection.
Behaviour to need
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For busy parents
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Behaviour to need 🌟 For busy parents 🌟
School resistance is rarely about “not wanting to go to school”. It is often a child’s nervous system signalling anxiety, overwhelm, or uncertainty.
This Emp Translator Card helps adults pause and look beneath the behaviour to understand what a child might be experiencing emotionally.
The card offers clear, practical language and strategies that create predictability, support co-regulation, and gently guide children through separation.
By noticing common signs adults are supported to identify which Emp may be visiting and respond in ways that reduce anxiety rather than increase pressure.
Designed by an Educational Psychologist, this resource helps shift mornings from power struggles to connection, supporting children to feel safe enough to take the next step.
When children have big reactions to small moments, it is often because their system is already overloaded.
The reaction may look sudden, but the build-up usually isn’t.
This Emp Translator Card supports adults to pause, lower demands, and reduce language when emotions escalate.
By focusing on safety and connection in the moment, rather than correction, it helps children feel seen and supported until their body is calm enough to cope again.
Created by an Educational Psychologist, this resource reinforces a simple message: regulation first, teaching later.
After-school meltdowns are often a sign that a child has been holding it together all day.
By the time they get home, their emotional and sensory resources are depleted, and the feelings spill out.
With simple, choice-based suggestions and an emphasis on quiet presence, this card helps children feel safe enough to settle, reminding us that regulation comes before reflection.
This Emp Translator Card helps adults o identify which Emp may be visiting and respond with calm, low-demand connection rather than questions or correction.
Designed by an Educational Psychologist, this resource supports smoother transitions from school to home by meeting children where they are, not where we wish they could be.
Shutdown and withdrawal are often quiet signs of overwhelm.
When children go still, stop responding, or pull away, their nervous system may be protecting them from too much input.
This Emp Translator Card helps adults understand silence and disengagement as signals of overload rather than refusal.
It encourages gentle presence, reduced language, and calm side-by-side support , allowing children to re-emerge at their own pace.
Designed by an Educational Psychologist, this card highlights the power of simply being there when words feel like too much.
Bedtime struggles are rarely about defiance, they are often a sign that a child’s body and brain are still in “daytime mode.”
Excitement, overwhelm, and difficulty switching states can make settling for sleep feel hard.
This Emp Translator Card helps adults recognise common bedtime behaviours as signals of dysregulation and respond with calm, predictable routines that support the nervous system to slow down.
By keeping steps consistent and language minimal, adults can help children feel safe enough to rest.
Designed by an Educational Psychologist, this card reminds us that sleep follows regulation, not pressure.
Children borrow regulation from the adults around them — which means adult overwhelm matters too.
When grown-ups feel triggered, tense, or reactive, it can be hard to support a child’s emotional needs.
This Emp Translator Card offers simple, realistic strategies to help adults reset their nervous system in the moment and return with calm, repair-focused responses.
It normalises imperfection and emphasises that coming back matters more than staying calm all the time.
Created by an Educational Psychologist, this card supports adults to model regulation, repair, and emotional safety.