How Music Helps With Emotional Regulation
Music can reach deep into our souls and touch parts of us that words alone cannot. It’s a universal language that transcends boundaries, connecting us through melodies, rhythms, and lyrics that resonate with our innermost feelings. In moments of joy, music amplifies our happiness, and in times of sorrow,...
Self-Reflection For Self-Regulation: The Person In The Mirror
You’ve made it! We have finally arrived at the last lesson for helping your child manage difficult emotions. You have learned a lot of tips to help you and your child regulate emotions but more importantly, I hope you have learned a lot about yourself as a parent, about...
Get To The Bottom of Tantrums By Playing Detective
All behavior has a purpose.Learning how to engage your inner sleuth as a parent is beneficial in numerous ways. From improving both your and your child's communication skills to building your child's self-esteem to enhancing your bond with your child, taking the time to tease out the thoughts and...
How To Tame Your Child’s Tantrums With The Power of Theraplay
Playing with your child can be fun, but did you also know it can be therapeutic?
Play is a child's natural language. Before they can form words, children observe and interact with the world around them. As parents and caregivers, we are a HUGE chunk of that...
Get Moving To Help Your Kids Manage BIG Feelings
In our last post, we introduced you to the mindfulness practice of cloud-watching.
Today, we are going to talk about the healing power of movement....
How Cloud-Watching Can Help Us Cope With and Calm BIG Feelings
Did you know relaxing on your back in soft green grass on a sunny day can help you and your child tame the tantrum monster?
Cloud-watching is an exercise in mindfulness, which essentially means remaining in a state of awareness of one's present circumstances, thoughts, and feelings without...
How Deep Belly Breathing Can Help Your Child Cope With Big Feelings
Breathing.
It's something we so often take for granted.
Most of us rarely even think about it until we are faced with an incident that impacts our ability to breathe freely. But what if practicing how we breathe could help us cope in these challenging situations?...
Help Your Child Handle Big Feeling With Soothing Sounds
In our previous blog posts, we introduced you to several techniques to help your child handle BIG feelings. We laid the groundwork with The Power of the Pause and shared our first therapeutic tool in our eight-part series, Eight Ways To Help Your Child With Emotional Regulation, grounding. Today,...
Ground Your Kids To Help Them Manage BIG Feelings
In previous blog posts, we talked about the emotional roller coaster of feelings and introduced you to the topic of emotional regulation, including what it is and what it is not. We discussed the purpose and function of feelings, and the importance of making friends with feelings, and introduced...
Eight Ways to Help Your Homeschooler With Emotional Regulation
Today, we are going to lay the groundwork for an eight-part series to help you teach your child how to manage BIG feelings. Today's post is an overview and an introduction. ...
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