Free resources for everyday family life
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A few useful prompts can be enough to get started. Explore 43 free worksheets, checklists and conversation guides for family life, from babies to teens. Choose the one that answers a need you have today.
Print any resource page or copy its prompts into a notebook or document. There is no account to create and no online form to submit. Write, draw, dictate or talk through the parts that suit you.
Jump to everyday family life, babies, toddlers and early years, school years or teenagers.
Everyday family life
- Our family week: a simple planner PDF. See what is coming up and agree who will do what.
- Build a routine that works for your family PDF. Break one part of the day into manageable steps.
- The help I could use: a parent’s worksheet PDF. Put a useful request for support into words.
Babies
- Small moments together: baby connection prompts PDF. A gentle reflection sheet for noticing your baby and identifying support, without scores or targets.
- Who owns the job? A baby-care sharing sheet PDF. Agree who notices, plans and finishes three jobs, with a simple handover and review.
- A small outing with baby: planning checklist PDF. Plan the destination, essentials and easy way home for one manageable outing.
- Everyday baby chat: six conversation prompts PDF. Six small invitations to talk, sing and notice your baby during ordinary moments.
- Our growing family: a sibling welcome plan PDF. Help an older child know what will change, what stays familiar and how their needs will be met.
- New baby visitors: our welcome and help plan PDF. A visit planner with practical help requests and ready-to-adapt messages.
- Baby handover sheet for a trusted carer PDF. A private planning sheet for care essentials, comfort cues, contact and return arrangements.
- Back-to-work family handover planner PDF. Map one workday, assign the handovers and plan for childcare changes.
- First baby group: a small-step visit plan PDF. A simple checklist for choosing a session, starting a conversation and deciding whether to return.
- One page together: baby book-sharing prompts PDF. Six ways to share a page, with space to notice what your baby enjoys.
Toddlers and early years
- Our plan for a toddler’s big feelings PDF. Prepare a few calm words, safety steps and a practical change for a recurring difficult moment.
- Now and next: a simple transition card PDF. Make a two-step picture or word card for finishing one activity and beginning another.
- One dressing skill: a practice plan PDF. Choose a single dressing action and record the support, clothing and timing that make it manageable.
- Nursery settling-in conversation sheet PDF. Questions and notes for agreeing a goodbye, updates and a review with your childcare setting.
- A calmer mealtime: reflection and planning sheet PDF. Look at timing, comfort and adult responses, then choose one small change to try.
- My turn, your turn: a simple practice card PDF. Choose a short turn-taking game and plan the words and support your child needs.
- Our toddler toothbrushing routine card PDF. Find the difficult step, choose a helpful cue and prepare questions for the dentist.
- Potty preparation: comfort, skills and carers checklist PDF. Prepare the practical setup and record questions to discuss with carers or a health visitor.
- Our toddler bedtime sequence and review sheet PDF. Create a short evening sequence, plan reassurance and review one change at a time.
- Hitting and biting: a safety and next-step plan PDF. Record what happened, agree a calm response and choose one safer way for your toddler to ask for help.
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School years
- Our after-school landing plan PDF. Agree what happens first after school, when to talk and what support may be needed.
- School worries: a listening and meeting sheet PDF. Capture your child’s words, prepare a school conversation and record a clear support plan.
- Homework first steps and a note to the teacher PDF. Break a task into a starting point, agreed support and a factual message if it remains difficult.
- A friendship problem: story, choices and support PDF. Help a child describe an upsetting event, choose support and record an adult’s next steps.
- Starting school: people, places and help PDF. Make a simple school familiarisation sheet using your child’s words, pictures and support needs.
- Finding our reading way: a choice and observation sheet PDF. Explore what your child enjoys and prepare a useful reading conversation with their teacher.
- A mistake and a next step: a child-friendly reflection sheet PDF. A gentle drawing or writing activity for after a disappointing moment has settled.
- Sibling disagreement: our boundary and repair plan PDF. Hear each child and agree one practical change for a recurring disagreement.
- Gaming start and finish agreement PDF. Plan the game, warning, final round and next activity together.
- Parents’ evening questions and follow-up sheet PDF. Choose your priorities, record concrete examples and agree a follow-up with school.
Teenagers
- My next step in independence: a shared plan PDF. Agree an outing or new responsibility, practical safeguards and a calm review.
- Our family phone agreement: a conversation worksheet PDF. Write a few shared expectations, including adult commitments, exceptions and how to get help.
- Exam season: a parent and teenager support plan PDF. Agree welcome help, practical arrangements and a plan for before and after exams.
- Friendships and boundaries: a teenager’s reflection sheet PDF. Private prompts for thinking about a friendship, the help wanted and a possible next step.
- A fair-share household job agreement PDF. Agree one whole job, the support needed, a reminder and a realistic review.
- Secondary school: my people, places and backup plan PDF. A practical transition sheet for the journey, school routines and getting help.
- Puberty questions: a private conversation planner PDF. A private prompt sheet for questions, practical supplies and finding reliable answers.
- My first spending plan: a teenager money worksheet PDF. A simple paper budget with space for available money, choices, saving and a review.
- After the argument: a parent and teenager repair sheet PDF. Optional prompts for taking responsibility, listening and agreeing a calmer next conversation.
- Teen sleep: our one-change experiment PDF. Explore a typical evening and choose one supported change to review together.
Make them your own
These are practical planning and reflection tools, not assessments or treatment plans. Children of the same age can need different kinds of help. Leave out anything that does not fit your family, and ask for appropriate support when a situation needs more than a worksheet.
Start with one useful prompt. You can come back to the rest another day.