Danielle RalstonFounder, How Capacity Works · Founder of ND Hive | Building the productivity hub where work actually gets done | Execution spaces, body doubling & community accountability

How to Help Kids Self-Regulate During Meltdowns #selfregulation #selfcare #adhd #meltdown #ndoutloud

26 Jul 2024 · 1 min

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Danielle Ralston shares how she helped two toddlers self-regulate during a meltdown in a park using textured sticker "calm strips" and guided deep breaths tied to letters. A practical technique for teaching kids to calm down fast.

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Something else I did is I was talking to a family whose children were melting down in the park while I was there, and I turned around and I started talking to the kids, and we started having a conversation, and we redirected them and got them back on track and helped them. I taught 2 toddlers how to self-regulate. And this is how I told them, taught them to self-regulate, is I have these stickers with texture on them. They're calm strips. And Doing something as simple as talking to them about what it says and what it means. And can we take deep breaths with every letter? And these kids went from 9,000 to 0 in a matter of 30 seconds. But teaching that in the middle of a meltdown, you'll— because I will walk up to anybody in the park melting down and help the parent out.