Coping Skills to Try WITH Your Kids

Conscious Discipline on Being a Safekeeper: How we can provide emotional safety to children and why it is important for remote learning.

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  • Provides information on common stress responses of children at different ages and ways caregivers can help

How we LISTEN to our kids is far more important than how we talk to our kids, especially now.

Here is a guide for how to use Active Listening to: help your child's social emotional development, help your child feel safe and calm, and build your relationship with your child.

There's a really good reason teachers, parents, and babysitters play games like Simon Says, Red Light... Green Light

More Games that Teach Kids Self-Regulation

Managing Worry

Make a worry box.

A worry box helps children learn how to take some control over worrying thoughts. It helps them learn to and to spend time with their worry on their schedule, not worry's schedule. At a prescribed time, review the day's worries with your child. Your child will likely find that many of them are no longer worries.