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, we will discuss the second technique in our series, soothing sounds.
Your Brain on Music
Where words fail, music speaks.
Hans Christian Andersen
Music is a powerful tool.
It can help us regulate our mood, improve reasoning, enhance motor and auditory processing skills, increase visual attention, and improve memory.
Soothing Sounds
Music aside, there are other ways to soothe with sounds.
Take a walk in nature and listen to the beautiful song of the birds. Stroll by a gently flowing river, listen to the trickle of a fountain, or the soft babbling of a brook.
Rainy day? Make it a full-body sensory experience by throwing on your favorite pair of galoshes and splashing in a puddle or two.
Or curl up in a chair with a cozy blanket and a hot cup of tea together as you listen to the gentle tapping of raindrops on the roof.
Here are a few more ideas of how you can use sound to soothe:
- Sing a happy song with your child.
- Practice Body Percussion
- Turn on a white noise machine
Coming Up
In upcoming blog posts, we will continue with part three of our eight-part series Eight Ways To Help Your Child Regulate Emotions, deep belly breathing.
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Blessings,
Kimberly Bennett, LPC
IOH Mom
Founder/CEO, It’s Only Homeschooling
Founder/CEO, The Homeschool Counseling Network
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