Stress
Imagining a relaxing, stress free place.
What is guided imagery/relaxation exercise?
What are needs?
All feelings are acceptable, but not all _____ are acceptable.
What is behavior/actions?
You meet needs when you can.
You comfort feelings.
You do this for behaviors.
Discipline./Use your toolbox. Timeout/strategic ignoring.
This makes it harder for children to learn new behaviors, and remember hard behaviors.
What is stress, overwhelm, high excitement, large groups, overstimulation?
These needs can make children's behavior worse.
What are physical needs (having to use the bathroom, hunger, thirst, too hot/cold, sick, etc)?
These are examples of this:
Listening with your heart, validating a child's feelings, suggesting they run around or do wall pushups.
What is helping kids with coping strategies? What is emotion coaching?
When your child misbehaves during a certain activity, you can do a rehearsal with low stress and high ____ to teach your child how to behave.
Reward/praise/positive attention
When you are stressed your kids are more stressed because as a parent you set the emotional _____.
What is tone?
Hungry, Angery, Lonely, and Tired
What is HALT?/What are needs and feelings that can interfere with good behavior?
Talking kids out of their emotions, getting mad when they have feelings, punishing them for having feelings.
What are ineffective/unhelpful strategies for handling emotions?
During practice sessions, praise should be:
(hint - 3 F's)
Frequent, fun, full of love!