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Yes!

Supporting your child’s emotions plays a huge role in both emotional regulation and brain development! 💖🧠 When you comfort them, talk through their feelings, or offer a safe space to express themselves, you're helping their brain develop the pathways needed to manage emotions and stress.

By modeling how to handle big feelings and guiding them through tough moments, you’re teaching them how to self-soothe, build resilience, and regulate their emotions—all while strengthening their brain. 🌱 Emotional regulation and brain growth go hand in hand, setting them up for success in relationships, learning, and life. 💡

Every time you’re patient and present with their feelings, you're shaping a stronger, more confident brain!

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Absolutely! By prioritizing our needs we are helping our kids too.
Happy parents, happy kids 😊

Being so busy and having so many pressures, without the support we need, can create a downward spiral. If we are stressed and overwhelmed we can't be empathetic and patient parents. This can then cause us to feel guilty and down we go. Taking care of ourselves helps us to be the best parent that we can be. On top of this we will be teaching our kids the importance of self-care and gives them coping strategies for life.

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Guidance from The Therapist Parent

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Yes! And they can reduce anxiety too! When kids know what to expect they can prepare themselves for the next activity.

Visual schedules can be a collaborative process. They help with predictability and structure, letting everyone know what's expected. Use choice to intersperse preferred activities so the student can choose the order of activities. You can also work on turn-taking - alternate who gets to choose the next activity!

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It all starts in the home...

So nice and true!

How we speak to our children is important. Our words impact how they value themselves. When we listen to them and allow them to make some decisions, they learn how to think through situations and gain confidence.

What others would you add to this list?

PS I know there are 2 "I love spending time with you"

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Something to think about…

For a child who is exaggerating injuries, they may feel that they need more nurturing. A child who is “over-dramatic” may feel that they are often over-looked in the family. A child who puts themselves first might feel that they are only important if they are first. When children seems to fish for praise or they lie about their abilities, it could mean that they have low self-esteem. A child who is hurting siblings or constantly doing something to upset you, might be getting bullied, have a new sibling or something else cause them to feel bad and it is coming out to make other feel bad too. Children don’t enjoy “attention seeking” behaviour, they do it because they need help and the only way they will get help is with your attention.

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Guidance from The Therapist Parent

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I spend most of my time as a Psychologist teaching kids about feelings. It never stops amazing me how a lot of adults struggle at doing this. Feelings are there for a reason, we need to recognise them so we can manage them

When kids are little, sticking to Happy, Sad, Angry, Scared and Worried are fine. They are the building blocks for understanding emotions. However, as children get older we need to expand their emotional vocabulary. For example, there is a difference between feeling angry and disappointed or confused and frustrated. The way would would manage anger and disappointment are probably going to be different too.

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Guidance from The Therapist Parent

Available on my website www.thetherapistparent.com and Amazon

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Great quote!

Oh I love this quote from Walter Barbie so much! 👏👏👏

We sometimes have our traditional way of explaining something, but if the child does not understand, instead of expecting them to adapt to our way of thinking, we need to work at finding ways that make sense to that individual child! If your student/s are not learning the way you teach, teach the way they learn.