Creating a Calm Down Space
Description
In this second episode of this re-introduction to the Returning To Us series, Lauren walks through how to build and use a calm down quiet space in your home or classroom. In the last episode, Lauren strategies for recognizing and categorizing emotional states - a critical step in emotional regulation.
Creating a quiet space to facilitate regulation is an easy way to help your kiddos with emotional regulation. This isn't a time out or punishment; it's a safe place where kids can go to focus on how they are feeling internally and employ emotional regulation strategies.
Lauren provides the steps necessary to setting up a quiet space in your home and teaching your young kids to use it in concert with the regulation strategies and temperature system introduced in past episodes.
Listener Question: Where do you get all the materials you use to create this?
Try-at-home tip: Create a mind space for your teens, tweens, and young adults.
References & Resources:
- What Happened to You?
- Interview with Oprah and Bruce Perry
- Understanding the Window of Tolerance
- Aaron Alexander's Website
Other related resources from The Behavior Hub:
Blog Post:
- 5 Reasons Behaviors Occur
- Fight or Flight: Sympathetic Nervous System (SNS)
- Rest & Digest: Parasympathetic Nervous System (PNS)
- Progressive Muscle Relaxation for Kids
Podcast:
- Teaching Emotional Regulation to Toddlers
- The Brain in the Palm of Your Hand
- How on Earth Do We Deal with Misbehavior?
Our Online Courses:
- Classroom Design with the Brain in Mind
- From Conflict to Calm: How to communicate with kids so they listen the FIRST time!
- 4 Simple Steps to Problem Solving
Do you have a question? I can answer it in a future episode!
- Email questions to podcast@thebehaviorhub.com or send via text to 717-693-7744.
- Subscribe to our mailing list and find out more about the Emotional Brain.
- Check out our Facebook Group – Raising and Teaching Respectful Children
- The Behavior Hub website
- The Behavior Hub blog
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