Middle Circle
According to the book, a healthy life requires..
What is connection?
Feeding healthy snack, managing transitions, remaining calm in the moment, and celebrating with character praise are examples of this.
What is creating an environment of felt safety?
Yes, when or Yes, instead...
What is the skill or power of YES?!? Page 108/109
To provide felt safety, who has to change or modify their behavior and focus on building relationships.
What is you, the adult?
This has hundreds of ears but can't hear a thing?
What is a cornfield?
An individual who helps connect the hurting child with necessary resource, a safe, nurturing adult. This person is intentionally present, and consistently helps meet the child's deeper needs.
What is the middle circle?
This is the language of children who have lost their voice, there is always the meaning behind this, (hint one word.)
What is Behavior?
If a children's brain is overwhelmed by this, little learning can occur.
What is fear?
Daily Double - This begins with looking for natural points of connection.
What is behavioral matching? Page 115/116
Zombies order at the deli.
What is a knuckle sandwich?
These two circles make up the other parts of the middle circle concept.
What are child and resources?
CUTS
What is Chronic Unpredictable Toxic Stress?
According to Dr. Gordon Neufeld, their is a correlation between these two things.
What is my emotional connection to the child and my tolerance for his/her behavior.
According to the book, the Negative Reaction Cycle involves.
What is 1. the child has a need 2. they express the need negatively, dysregulated or as a behavior 3. the adult reacts with discipline and 4. the cycle repeats itself...
What a ghost mom say when she gets in the car.
What is "Fasten your sheet-belts."
According to the book, Jesus did this for us, hint VRS.
What is voluntary redemptive suffering?
"Psychological strength to deal with stress, setbacks, crisis, and an array of hardships that confront us in life."
What is Resilience?
Attachment and orientation are this according to the book.
What are children's and teens greatest needs?
Name 3 strategies for creating connection with kids who are experiencing behavioral episodes, according to the book.
-Remaining with a child during a "time-in" communication, No matter what, I want to be with you. -Sitting quietly next to a child on the floor during a meltdown says, I am in this with you. -Getting down to the child's level and making eye contact (if the child isn't too dysregulated) communicates, I see you. -A gentle touch on a hand or shoulder says, I am here -Kind words reassure a child, indicating, I want you to feel safe.
The preferred method for mending a broken gourd.
What is with a pumpkin patch?
Four characteristics of the middle circle.
What is -they understand the need for attachment and orientation. -they know heavy lifting and loving are required -the establish and maintain boundaries - they keep showing up?
Discovered that childhood trauma leads to the adult onset of chronic disease, depression, and other mental illness, violence, and being victims of violence, as well as financial and social problems, early onset of disease and death...
What is ACEs - Adverse Childhood Experiences?
The foundation in which to build a relationship with a child is what 2 components?
What is felt safety and trust?
Name 2 strategies of building resilience in kids, according to the book.
What is listening to their stories, validating what they say, empathizing with their pain, and understanding their feelings and experiences.
The teenage zombie gets her hair to stay so curly by using this.
What is scare-spray?