Parenting Tips
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Tips to help self-calm
Are you ever faced with a screaming toddler or a raging teenager? Or perhaps feeling out of control yourself? To be able to think properly, and to even be capable of appropriate decisions; we must first be calm. Calm means to soothe our minds and bodies so that we are ready to engage physically, emotionally, socially, intellectually and/or spiritually.
Here are some techniques we can use:
- Reduce Stimulation: Our senses quickly become overloaded when provided with too much stimuli. Try reducing excess noise, focusing on one task at a time, turning off electronics, and reducing clutter.
- Take a few sips of water
- Deep breathe
- Spend some time snuggling with a pet
- Do something creative (take photos, colour, write something, cook)
- Activate one sense to help calm and soothe, for example, soothing music, a warm or cool drink, a bath, something that smells good
- Rhythmic movement and exercise : walking, dancing, singing
- Get out into nature!
Thanks for this tips. life is full of noise and stress. We need to find whatever help us to go over it.
I found this article helpful. It was a good reminder of strategies to use when feeling stressed.
A lot of these we can do with our children! Thanks for these great ideas.
Thanks for the reminder. . . when we can self-calm, then we can help our children to calm down.