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Mindfulness - Self Calming Toolkit and 5 Steps to Handling Big Emotions: In these mindfulness toolkits you'll learn about hands on techniques shown to help children learn and grow to constructively deal with strong feelings and expand their focused attention.
Mindfulness - Self Calming Toolkit and 5 Steps to Handling Big Emotions: In these mindfulness toolkits you'll learn about hands on techniques shown to help children learn and grow to constructively deal with strong feelings and expand their focused attention.
Mindfulness Moments - Ease At Home Toolkit - Strategies for helping young children cope with worry.
Taking a mindful moment helps your child to be more calm, confident, and connected. Mindful activating exercises help to enhance children's concentration to learn new things. Practice mindfulness right when you and your child wake up and during daily routine activities to be mindful every day. Keep mindful practices short and straightforward, and learn to meditate. The calm corner techniques help children to make mindful practices a daily habit. A daily mindful practice routine helps us create new brain connections improving our capabilities to behave in helpful ways to deal with stressful situations.
The Ease at home toolkit provides parents with fun and practical strategies help guide parents and caregivers in managing their children’s anxiety and worries in the comfort of their home. The EASE activity young children collection are evidence-informed anxiety prevention and resilience-building resources for use with children grades K-3. They use cognitive behavioural strategies to address the thoughts, feelings and behaviours associated with anxiety.
"You don't have to be stuck in these patterns of frustration, impatience and anger - in other words acting in a way you had not intended. Pausing to practice mindfulness for just a few minutes at different times during the day can help your days be better, more in line with how you'd like them to be." Here are five simple mindfulness practices for daily life.
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Ms. Malak & Ms. Susan Austin
Why Empathy is Our #1 Parenting Tool?
Empathy is the foundation of our children's wellbeing. Empathy is what connects you to your child to help them process emotions. Though empathy will not stop a tantrum it will help your child let their feelings to calm, say what they want to happen and ask for help.
Here are a parent and child friendly empathy videos to view and share with others.
Please let us know of any life skills, health and wellness topics that are of interest to you. We are here to support you and your family.
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Ms. Malak & Ms. Susan Austin
Wellness Plan - Self-care & caring for others
Brain Games to play at home that help with memory and focusing skills.
Brain Games to play at home that help with memory and focusing skills.
Positive Thoughts and Affirmations
Positive Thoughts and Affirmations
Positive thinking is a very powerful tool. There is a lot of research that confirms that positive thinking and affirmations helps you manage your big emotions. As we experience this new normal, it is helpful to check in with yourself and your children on how everyone is feeling.
Kindly find a list of positive thoughts and affirmations that you can use for yourself or with/for your child. You can pick your favorite 10 and write them down. Read them to yourself every morning and every night.
A story about social distancing.
A story about social distancing.
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