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Helpful Parenting Information
Helpful Parenting Information
This is a great resource who are looking for ideas of how to discipline effectively or find expert articles on a
multitude of parental struggles. It also offers access to parenting blogs and behavior charts that can be used at home
This is a great website that offers parenting advice on dealing with learning and attention issues.
You can click on the "Parenting Toolkit" to find practical ideas for social, emotional, and behavioral challenges.
Offers discipline pointers and positive parenting techniques and is broken down by age level to ensure that
they are developmental appropriate for the age of your children.
This is an article from the online version of Parenting that addresses 8 common discipline mistakes that we may make
as parents and how we can fix them.
This website offers pointers for parents of children with ADHD and addresses strategies for all areas of their lives.
Meeting with many parents through the years, I have found that this is a topic that many parents are interested in!
Find practical ideas for Home, school, outside activities, and self esteem.
***Please keep in mind that these are just resources and do not necessarily reflect the counselors' or district's point of view****
Relaxation Strategies and Ideas for Kids
Exercise for Relaxation
Regular aerobic exercise will bring remarkable changes to your body, your metabolism, your heart, and your spirits. It has a unique capacity to exhilarate and relax, to provide stimulation and calm, to counter depression and dissipate stress. The mental benefits of aerobic exercise have a neurochemical basis. Exercise reduces levels of the body's stress hormones, such as adrenaline and cortisol. It also stimulates the production of endorphins, chemicals in the brain that are the body's natural painkillers and mood elevators.
Progressive Muscle Relaxation
Progressive muscle relaxation offers a wonderful way to relieve stress. This is accomplished by tensing and then relaxing different muscle groups in your body.
- Face - Ask your child to scrunch up her nose and forehead like she smells something stinky, and then have her relax her face. Repeat three times.
- Jaws - Ask your child to clench her jaws together tightly like she's a dog hanging on to a bone, and then have her release that imaginary bone and let her jaw go completely loose. Repeat three times.
- Arms and shoulders - Ask your child to stretch her arms out in front of her, and then raise them above her head and stretch as high as she can. Have her drop her arms and let them hang loose. Repeat three times.
- Hands and arms - Ask your child to imagine squeezing an orange as hard as she can with one hand, and then dropping that orange on the floor and letting her arm and hand go limp. Repeat three times, and then switch to the other arm.
- Stomach - Have your child lie on her back and clench her stomach muscles as hard as she can for just a moment. Have her release them and relax. Repeat three times, and then have her do the same technique while standing up.
- Legs and feet - Have your child stand and press her toes against the floor as though she is digging them into sand at the beach. Have her alternately press them and spread them enough to feel it in her legs, and then have her relax. Repeat three times.
With each of these techniques, encourage your child to notice how good her body feels when she relaxes each portion. The goal is to work through these exercises to achieve full body relaxation.
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