The 3-C method for handling kids' meltdowns: calm yourself first, then the environment, then the child. Practical moves include blowing bubbles, dimming lights, and creating quiet spaces like a blanket tent or moving to the car for sensory breaks.
Foreign heroes. We're on day five and I'm going to give you a little more of an overview of Ohana's 3C method, which is calming yourself, calming the environment, and calming the child. These three things are totally essential for success in helping kids when they're having a meltdown. And so an example would be this. This is a very common scenario at, at Ohana if, if a child's having a meltdown. So first of all, we don't let them raise up our, our blood pressure or our breath. We just intentionally, like, get really, really calm. We might blow some bubbles to help us stay calm. There's been times we've blown bubbles for 20 minutes or more, but just anything to just kind of keep, keep us really calm. The lights go down. Typically the kids do really well. If all of a sudden the lights are lower, it just switches something in their brain that tells them that they're, they're supposed to relax. You know, if you're in an environment where you're at a grocery store and they're in the cart and you have a coat, you might like throw, you might put a, like a, a make a tent in the, basically in the cart just to kind of give them like a little bit less st. Another example would be like if you're at a birthday party and they just need a little sensory break. You can go sit in the car, sit in the bathroom for a few minutes. That makes a huge difference. Sometimes just moving them to a different spot can make a big difference. And then you can use your tools, your various tools for calming the child. So in the case of the bubbles, which you'll hear me talk about bubbles a lot because it really has been the thing that is like our go to. It works so well. So we might be like blowing the bubbles and then that's changing the environment because you're seeing little calm bubbles floating around. The kids get kind of. They don't want to look at them because they're upset, but then they can't help themselves and they look at them and then at some point they want to blow the bubbles. If I can get three blows, three slow breaths, that's going to bring them down and, and help them. There's lots of other, other tools too that we'll go into. And there's a lot of different things to be aware of for calming yourselves because the typical thing, the parent and the child have really different sensory systems. So you might be auditory sensitive and tactile sensitive, and the child is just all over you and, and loud and you know. So just know getting to know your own. And we'll get into that in depth when we get into this section. Getting to just know yourself better and what tools you can go to for yourself makes a huge difference in helping your child. So that's just like a quick little introduction. And go ahead and click on your homework and answer the question and I'll see you in day six. Aloha.
