Grief and Social Emotional Regulation by Lydia Lee

Experienced a loss? - Resources

leebjl14 — 2024-09-17 01:52:27 UTC

If your scholar has experienced the loss of a loved one please reach out to Mrs. Martinez as soon as possible at jmartinez@fcymca.org. Tiger Academy has a partnership with a local counseling service provider that could help your scholar through this time.

POV - You are … {insert your child’s name}❤️

leebjl14 — 2024-09-17 01:53:16 UTC

Imagine sitting next to a friend and all of a sudden you begin to feel out of place, frustrated, antsy, and ultimately uncomfortable. You don’t know what’s wrong and can’t really explain how you’re feeling. All you know to do is naturally react ; cry, become furious, grow anxious, and some may even throw an adult tantrum, which can look a number of ways.

Without the proper language and skills necessary to help regulate these emotions, your body will react before you have time to respond. A response is planned and a reaction is not. Our goal with these skills and resources are to aid in the building of your scholars responses to these emotions rather than their reactions - Social Emotional Learning.

Peer Reviewed Article - Additional Reading 📚

leebjl14 — 2024-09-17 01:54:53 UTC

In this peer reviewed article you will discover the positive benefits of social and emotional learning skills in the school setting. These skills were explicitly taught three times a week using the You Can Do It! Early Childhood Education Program. Researchers have found after incorporating this curriculum that scholars showed a significant increase in Total Social skills.

This data would support that scholars who practice the skills at home that their learning in schools would enhance their overall social and emotional well-being.

Peer Reviewed Article - Additional Reading📚

leebjl14 — 2024-09-17 01:55:12 UTC

In this peer reviewed article you will find that one of the three attributes to the development of these skills is “family engagement, which helps ensure that children develop SEL skills both at school and at home” (McClellan, M. M et al., 2017). You may think, “one more thing for me to try” or “my kid will not respond well to this” to those statements we’ll respond by saying, “just try”. You never know until you try and here are a couple of fun and easy ways to practice regulating your scholars emotions: counting, box breathing, counting backwards, forcing laughter or a smile, hugs (physical connection), and so much more. If you have any questions please reach out to our school counselor Mrs. Martinez @jmartinez@fcymca.org.

In the meantime feel free to watch these videos and try one new thing with your scholar!

Many changes in the home?

leebjl14 — 2024-09-17 02:02:39 UTC

Change isn’t easy for anyone and can manifest itself in a number of ways for your scholars. Outbursts, doubt, fear, impatience, anxiety, complaining, and many other forms of frustration are ways your scholar may be reacting to the change around them. Studies have shown that scholars who experience minor or major changes at home tend to suffer major behavioral consequences at school. For scholars with psychological differences or exceptionalities change can present itself to be extremely difficult with respect to at home activities and minor shifts and transitions at school. While these undesirable behaviors can present themselves to be extremely difficult to manage, we recognize that there are a number of ways we can help manage their emotions and cope with the changes.

Fun Things to try at home! 🤩

leebjl14 — 2024-09-20 02:38:59 UTC

Fun Things to Try at Home! 🤩

leebjl14 — 2024-09-21 01:28:13 UTC

No prep Practices

Use stuffed animals
Triangle (shape) Breathing
Earth Vader breathing
Ocean or whale breathing
Day dream about your favorite place, draw, and verbally reflect on the place
Counting on and back from 10 or 100
Pretend to be like a lion and roar as loud as you can (maybe into a pillow)
Melt your body to the floor and relax and slowly regain your strength.