As part of Social Care Wales’ Well-being Week 2026, Coram PACEY Cymru spoke to childminders across Wales about how they support their wellbeing when working in homebased childcare. Here we have complied a list of their Top Tips for supporting wellbeing.
- Set boundaries early and maintain them. Parents won’t honour limits you don’t enforce.
- Find (or create) small, safe pockets of community. Lone working is too heavy to carry alone.
- Let go of perfectionism — it’s unsustainable and you don’t have to have done everything yesterday.
- Honour your fluctuating capacity instead of fighting it. This too shall pass, good and bad.
- Write down what you’ve done — it’s evidence that you are doing enough.
- Use nature — it’s one of the fastest ways to regulate.
- Remember nothing collapses when you drop the non-essentials.
- Find techniques to support your wellbeing such as breathing exercises
- Make time for yourself and time to socialise, you cannot pour from an empty cup.
- Be present in the moment, focus on the here and now and forget the to do lists at least once a day
- Go out and about no matter what the weather. You will always feel better for it and there are so many benefits for you and the children
Further reading
- Interview with Terri Steele
- Interview with Alison Burt-Ryan
- Well-being Week 2026
- Coram PACEY- Mental Health and Wellbeing
Fel rhan o Wythnos Llesiant 2026 Gofal Cymdeithasol Cymru, bu Coram PACEY Cymru’n siarad â gwarchodwyr plant ledled Cymru am sut maen nhw’n cefnogi eu llesiant wrth weithio ym maes gofal plant yn y cartref. Yma rydym wedi rhoi rhestr o’u Sïon Sicr ar gyfer cefnogi llesiant at ei gilydd.
- Gosod ffiniau’n gynnar a’u cynnal. Ni fydd rhieni’n anrhydeddu terfynau nad ydych chi’n eu gorfodi.
- Dewch o hyd i (neu crëwch) pocedi bach, diogel o gymuned. Mae baich gweithio ar eich pen eich hun yn rhy drwm i’w gario ar eich pen eich hun.
- Gadewch i berffeithiaeth fynd — nid yw’n gynaliadwy ac nid oes rhaid i chi fod wedi gwneud popeth ddoe.
- Anrhydeddwch eich capasiti niweidiol yn lle brwydro yn ei erbyn. Hyn hefyd a â heibio, y da a’r drwg.
- Ysgrifennwch yr hyn rydych chi wedi’i wneud — mae’n dystiolaeth eich bod yn gwneud digon.
- Defnyddiwch fyd natur — mae’n un o’r ffyrdd cyflymaf i reoleiddio.
- Cofiwch nad yw pethau’n syrthio’n ddarnau os byddwch yn gollwng y pethau diangen.
- Dewch o hyd i dechnegau i gefnogi’ch llesiant megis ymarferion anadlu
- Gwnewch amser i chi’ch hun ac i gymdeithasu, does dim modd arllwys o gwpan gwag.
- Byddwch yn bresennol yn y foment, canolbwyntiwch ar y fan hyn a’r nawr ac anghofiwch y rhestrau o bethau i’w gwneud o leiaf unwaith y dydd
- Ewch hwnt ac yma beth bynnag yw’r tywydd. Byddwch bob amser yn teimlo’n well ac mae cynifer o fuddion i chi a’r plant
