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    The document provides 4 steps to help kids cope with big feelings about failure: 1. Explain why feelings are useful as part of our body's warning system. 2. Create an action plan to discuss failures that trigger strong feelings and choices to take back control when emotions are high. 3. Validate all feelings, including those about failing, to communicate that their feelings are okay and accepted. 4. Co-regulate emotions by responding with warmth and support rather than reacting with high emotion, as children's ability to manage feelings depends on age and external regulation.

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    Strategies For Keeping Me Calm Big Life Journal PDF

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    The document provides 4 steps to help kids cope with big feelings about failure: 1. Explain why feelings are useful as part of our body's warning system. 2. Create an action plan to discuss failures that trigger strong feelings and choices to take back control when emotions are high. 3. Validate all feelings, including those about failing, to communicate that their feelings are okay and accepted. 4. Co-regulate emotions by responding with warmth and support rather than reacting with high emotion, as children's ability to manage feelings depends on age and external regulation.

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    The document provides 4 steps to help kids cope with big feelings about failure: 1. Explain why feelings are useful as part of our body's warning system. 2. Create an action plan to discuss failures that trigger strong feelings and choices to take back control when emotions are high. 3. Validate all feelings, including those about failing, to communicate that their feelings are okay and accepted. 4. Co-regulate emotions by responding with warmth and support rather than reacting with high emotion, as children's ability to manage feelings depends on age and external regulation.

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    Strategies For Keeping Me Calm Big Life Journal PDF

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    Paola Cannuni
    The document provides 4 steps to help kids cope with big feelings about failure: 1. Explain why feelings are useful as part of our body's warning system. 2. Create an action plan to discuss failures that trigger strong feelings and choices to take back control when emotions are high. 3. Validate all feelings, including those about failing, to communicate that their feelings are okay and accepted. 4. Co-regulate emotions by responding with warmth and support rather than reacting with high emotion, as children's ability to manage feelings depends on age and external regulation.

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    Do a puzzle

    Do a
    silly dance
    Paint Place an ice pack
    on my neck
    Make a fist,
    then relax Pet my animal
    Read a book
    Do yoga poses

    Stretch Build something


    Use weighted blanket
    Visualize a peaceful
    place

    Have some alone


    Listen to time
    relaxing music
    Look at my glitter jar
    Take a warm bath

    Write in a Take 10
    journal Play with modeling
    clay deep breaths
    Hum or sing
    Go outside a song
    Jump on a
    trampoline
    Draw how I feel
    Give someone a hug
    Printables by Big Life Journal - biglifejournal.com
    4 steps to help
    KIDS COPE WITH BIG
    FEELINGS about failure
    EXPLAIN WHY FEELINGS ARE USEFUL
    Explain that feelings, are part of our bodies. Just like our muscles, brain

    and heart, our emotions work to keep us healthy and safe.


    Tell that strong and powerful emotions, like anger, trigger a warning

    system in our bodies. Our brain thinks we are in a dangerous situation


    and our body reacts in lots of different ways--a fast heartbeat, a red

    face, or maybe a headache.

    CREATE AN ACTION PLAN


    Tell kids that when they notice their rapid breathing, tense muscles, or

    upset stomach, it’s a cue to make choices that take back control.
    When kids are calm (long car rides or bedtime work well) talk with
    them about the types of failures that trigger their strongest feelings: a

    poor grade on a spelling test, losing a soccer game at recess, or not

    understanding that homework question.

    VALIDATE FEELINGS
    In their most difficult moments, kids need to know that all feelings--
    including ones about failing--are okay to have.

    Ask questions to better understand their frustrations, and


    communicate that you hear and accept exactly how they feel.

    Then ask, “What should we do to tackle this?”

    CO-REGULATE
    Each child’s capacity for managing feelings is different (and age-

    dependent). The prefrontal cortex, the area regulating emotions,

    isn’t even fully developed until early adulthood.


    By responding to our child’s frustrations with warmth and support,

    rather than reacting with our own high emotion, we can provide that

    experience.

    BIG LIFE JOURNAL - BIGLIFEJOURNAL.COM

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