Creating a Calm Down Space

In this second episode of this re-introduction to the Returning To Us series, Lauren walks through how to build and use a calm down quiet space in your home or classroom. In the last episode, Lauren strategies for recognizing and categorizing emotional states - a critical step in emotional regulation.

Creating a quiet space to facilitate regulation is an easy way to help your kiddos with emotional regulation. This isn't a time out or punishment; it's a safe place where kids can go to focus on how they are feeling internally and employ emotional regulation strategies.

Lauren provides the steps necessary to setting up a quiet space in your home and teaching your young kids to use it in concert with the regulation strategies and temperature system introduced in past episodes.


Listener Question: Where do you get all the materials you use to create this?

Try-at-home tip:  Create a mind space for your teens, tweens, and young adults. 

References & Resources:

• What Happened to You?
• Interview with Oprah and Bruce Perry
• Understanding the Window of Tolerance
• Aaron Alexander's Website

Other related resources from The Behavior Hub: 

Blog Post: 

• 5 Reasons Behaviors Occur
• Fight or Flight: Sympathetic Nervous System (SNS)
• Rest & Digest: Parasympathetic Nervous System (PNS)
• Progressive Muscle Relaxation for Kids

Podcast:

• Teaching Emotional Regulation to Toddlers
• The Brain in the Palm of Your Hand
• How on Earth Do We Deal with Misbehavior?

Our Online Courses: 

• Classroom Design with the Brain in Mind
• From Conflict to Calm:  How to communicate with kids so they listen the FIRST time!
• 4 Simple Steps to Problem Solving

Do you have a question? I can answer it in a future episode!

• Email questions to podcast@thebehaviorhub.com or send via text to 717-693-7744.
• Subscribe to our mailing list and find out more about the Emotional Brain.
• Check out our Facebook Group – Raising and Teaching Respectful Children 
• The Behavior Hub website
• The Behavior Hub blog

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