During each session, the mother-child dyads will meet with Nurture Science program staff virtually. The entire procedure will be done on Zoom or in person depending on school opening. All mother-child pairs will then be asked to interact, with the child sitting on the mother's lap face-to-face. The rest of the session may continue with: (1) Reading Cuddle and Calm Book (2) Mutual Mother and Child Emotional Exchange Prompts (3) Mothers Support Circle to identify and engage members of the mother's family in helping the dyad with emotional connection (4) Mommy Baby Book (5) Bottle of Emotions (6) Plans for continuing the work in the family. Returning mothers will be asked how they have progressed using the Cuddle and Calm and mutual narrative over the week and what their experience with their child after the session has been.

The Cuddle and Calm Book, The Mommy Baby Book, mother and child mutual narrative, the Bottle of Emotions, and the WECS for emotional connection, make up the WECS Relational Health toolkit.

This will be used to determine study uptake.

This will be used to determine retention rate.

Emotional connection will be measured from pre- and post-intervention WECS screen scale scores will be compared using paired sample t-tests. Change in WECS scores will be correlated with attendance using Spearman's rank correlation coefficient. This is a clinical tool completed by study staff to assess the emotional connection of a mother-child dyad. The WECS focuses on specific domains: attraction, vocal communication, facial communication, sensitivity/responsivity and one general: a dyad's interventional need. The WECS is scored based on observed presence of these 4 domains. The lowest score being a 1 and the highest being a 3. The higher the score, the more emotionally connected the dyad is therefore indicating a better outcome.

The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) is a brief behavioural screening questionnaire about 3-16 year olds. It exists in several versions to meet the needs of researchers, clinicians and educationalists. All versions of the SDQ ask about 25 attributes, some positive and others negative. These 25 items are divided between 5 scales: (1) emotional symptoms (5 items); (2) conduct problems (5 items); (3) hyperactivity/inattention (5 items); (4) peer relationship problems (5 items); (5) prosocial behavior (5 items). Sections (1) to (4) are added together to generate a total difficulties score (based on 20 items), ranging from 0 (better outcome) to 40 (worse outcome).