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Rainbow pasta salad

If you enjoy chopping you will love this recipe.

Ingredients:

250 grams dried pasta

1 small tin of sweetcorn

 ½ cucumber diced

2 salad tomatoes diced

 A small carrot diced

½ Red pepper diced

Salami diced (optional) you could change this for cooked chicken.

Mayonnaise (to taste) roughly 6-8 tbs

Pinch of salt (optional)

Pepper

Method

  1. Cook pasta according to the instructions on the packet. After cooking it Drain and rinse the pasta with cold water (this stops the pasta from sticking together)
  • Fry salami as this brings out the flavour and gives a better texture (leave to cool).
  • Dice all the fresh ingredients.
  • In a large bowl add all ingredients plus mayonnaise and mix well. Add pepper to taste. Mix again thoroughly and serve. Depending how creamy you like the pasta you can add more or less mayo.

This will serve 3-4 people depending on portion size. ENJOY!

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Children’s Mental Health

Children Mental Health

Children’s mental health is important as it allows young children to develop the resilience to cope with whatever life throws at them and grow into well-formed healthy adults. Children that are mentally healthy have a positive value of life and function well at home, in school, and in their communities.


To cope with mental health, it is important that caregivers provide support to young children. Here are a few ways to help young children to cope with mental health:
Be present – make sure you carve out time to be with the young person one-to-one and put all of your differences aside.


Really listen – listen to the young person and their feelings. Take them seriously and do not judge them. Paraphrase what they say to clarify you understand them.
Have quiet time together -it will encourage the young person to open up naturally.


Be a good role model – the caregiver should think about their own behaviour in front of the young person when dealing with emotions, not show frustration and anger, as this will impact how they behave and cope.
stick to commitments – follow through on your commitment to spend time with them.


Get arty – being creative together and encouraging the young person to tell their story could help them learn and to express emotions in a healthy way.