How do you teach emotional control and the power of thought? https://vimeo.com/131704250 It can be tricky to teach children emotional control. Trickier still to teach them how their thoughts can create fear, sadness, or anger. How do you help them understand that they don’t have to believe all their thoughts? Our brains are making thoughts […]
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Emotional Control for Anger and Anxiety
Emotional control for anger and anxiety in children is perhaps the single one most important social skill. If you can’t control yourself other people feel uncomfortable and may begin to avoid, criticize, tease, or bully. The good news is these skills can be taught. I find the most effective way to do this is combine teaching skills with some great motivators and behavior management to get kids to actually use coping skills when it counts.
We also need a way to communicate coping and behavioral strategies to parents and teaching staff so they can coach the kids to utilize their skills within the context of the environments where they have problems. Find videos, explanations, forms, and templates ready for you to use.
Every child and family deserves the best intervention available for teaching them how to be mad the right way and ways to break patterns of aggression and avoidance of anxiety provoking situations. I don’t think children struggle because they make bad choices on purpose. I believe kids sometimes simply lack the right habits and thinking skills they need to successfully adapt to changing demands from the environment.
Learn how to teach that is not what happens or what other people do that makes you angry or fearful, it’s how you think about what happens. Stop giving away your power to feel okay to these other people or situations and learn personal power.
Below please find more information about teaching emotional control for anger and anxiety:
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Calming Jar Meditation Tool
Here’s a fun activity creating a way to distract and focus a mind stirred up with chaotic thoughts and feelings, hopefully before things get out of hand. Calming Jar Meditation Tool: These are really fun to make. For a few more ideas about quick and easy ways for people to meditate, go here and click […]
How do you get the anxious child to use coping strategies?
How do you get anxious kids to use coping strategies? Check out the video: Here’s what I see in my practice. Avoidance of the triggers. Which is fine, except if the trigger is school, homework, or social settings. Avoidance is problematic because it is reinforcing- it works. It can be difficult to get the anxious […]
Have enough strategies for kids who struggle? ADHD, Autism, Anger, Anxiety, Giftedness
Silly question, right? How can you ever have enough to stop the madness when it comes to the ways adults often interact with children who have differences? We can make it better. We can train adults in more loving and effective methods, and we can teach children emotional coping skills, social skills, and better ways […]
Harness the power of stories to help people heal and get unstuck
Ever wonder why people get “stuck?” Is it fear of change? Staying in the comfort zone of what you have gotten used to, even if it’s not really what you want and dream of? Listening to the internal critic and pessimism, resigning yourself to helplessness, in effect giving away your power to change? Or maybe […]
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy: Mind and Mood Control
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy: Thinking Errors Practice Your thoughts are so powerful they create your reality. Where do your feelings come from? What happens, or how you think about what happens? For example, it could start raining, and I could think, “Oh no- this is going to ruin everything, I’m supposed to go fishing!” I could be […]
Sibling Rivalry HELP Now
Video preview summary link Don’t you hate it when your kids are agitating one another, screeching and crying out for your rescue? How will they learn to resolve their own conflicts if you jump in and do it for them? Get sibling rivalry help now. Sibling Rivalry can have significant impact on the quality of […]
Child Anxiety Definitions and Strategies
Anxiety Disorders effect 1 in 8 children. (www.adaa.org) That’s a lot of kids, right? Read on to get information, tips, resources, a mini-course, and helpful links. I also created a video for parents, teachers, and other therapists to view so they can see some of the ways to manage the problems created by Child Anxiety. […]