When Your Child Refuses School:
A Parent’s Guide to Understanding and Responding
Discover 3 simple strategies to ease tension, rebuild trust, and help your child feel ready to return to school.
What You’ll Learn Inside the Guide
Learn what’s really happening when a child can’t face school and how small, steady shifts can help them feel ready to return to school. In this short, practical guide, you will get:
* A real story that shows how change truly begins, even when mornings feel impossible.
* What’s really going on beneath school avoidance and why seeing it differently changes everything.
* The push–pull cycle every parent falls into, and the simple shift that breaks it.
* The three stages that move families from fear to calm, and from resistance to readiness.
* Practical ways to bring these ideas into everyday life and start seeing small signs of progress.
Coming Soon: What to Say When Nothing’s Working, a free companion with real-life phrases for those moments that test your patience and heart.
About Rooted Risings
Hi, I’m Eliana, a Systemic Family Therapy Practitioner and Coach. I help families move from daily conflict to calmer, more connected relationships, especially when school refusal, anxiety, or teen challenges have everyone feeling stuck.
This guide brings together practical approaches I share with parents to help them understand what’s happ
Hi, I’m Eliana, a Systemic Family Therapy Practitioner and Coach. I help families move from daily conflict to calmer, more connected relationships, especially when school refusal, anxiety, or teen challenges have everyone feeling stuck.
This guide brings together practical approaches I share with parents to help them understand what’s happening beneath the struggle and start creating the conditions for change at home.