Blow bubbles with your children. This gives you time to practice deep slow breaths, while sitting still, and (bonus) the bubbles are pretty to watch! Hopefully you get to have a cuppa while the the children watch or chase them. (Let’s be honest as soon as they walk they wanna chase them!) Try to pause between the blowing and watch, watch, watch until the last bubble is gone before blowing the next round. Encourage your children to do the same. Blowing bubbles without bubbles, for calm. Sometimes emotions run high and you all need to breath and refocus and gain a little calm. This is when you can pull out an imaginary bottle of bubbles from your pocket to blow. Make it into a fun game and ask them; 'Are you unscrewing the lid? Careful! Make sure the mixture doesn’t spill! Now hold it up, and deep breath iiiinnn...and slow as you can blow all the bubbles out for as long as you can...’ This can help short circuit a melt down or redirect cray cray behaviour. I use this and the below excercise when teaching drama for breath control, but as we well know, control your breath and you can begin to control your emotions :). I've tried it a couple of times with my 3 year old when he is about to hit a melt down and it has worked well! Blowing an Imaginary Balloon
(I put mascara on just for you guys ;) )
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