Help me calm down – We have been sharing some lovely resources with you in our recent kids mental health series that helps you guide your kids to learn to identify and regulate their emotions. And today we bring you yet another lovely post in the series. Don’t forget that we have been running this series in partnership with Leanne Brown, author of the book Daniel’s Dream. The book discusses kids mental health and ways that we can help our kids. Do check out her website as she has a lot of wonderful resources on the site as well as her lovely book. Get the full digital resource pack too (£9.50)!
We do have an email sign up for our Mental Health Kids Series, so do join in if you want to do so and sign up to get info on it that you can then bookmark:
It may be difficult to understand that our kids can feel emotions just as intensely as we do. And we are talking about the whole gamut too. From sadness to joy, and fear to happiness, our kids may be able to feel everything we do, but they lack the emotional intelligence to articulate it.
But what can we do as parents?
How many times have you asked your child what is the matter to just be met with a brick wall? This isn´t bad behaviour, but a lack of understanding on their part to articulate it. If we know how to help then we can help, right?
Today we are sharing a sheet that helps you do just that. The Help Me Calm Down sheet from the Daniel’s Dream resource book allows kids to let us know what would be helpful to them in the instances that they are feeling angry or frustrated.
Let’s take a look at the sheet.
Help me calm down
The sheet is extremely simple to follow but efficient, too! There are 4 columns; the first states a solution that you can help provide for your kids, then a yes column, a no column, followed by a sometimes column. These are simple spaces that your child can tick off to let you know if a specific activity can help them or not. And if they are unsure but are willing to try then the sometimes column works too.
The activity sheet is something that you can sit down together and work through, or maybe if your child is a little bit older or more independent they can take a look themselves and sit quietly on their own and have a think about what makes them feel better.
Another great benefit of the sheet is that even though you will be facilitating the solution that your child needs, your kids will be the ones that will be calming themselves down in a sense. As the solutions that they are providing will be all down to them.
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If you want to see more of the posts in the series check out them out. You can find the posts here – kids mental health series.
Before you go, take a look at further activities on the site to help kids with their emotions.
Here are some other ideas to help children to understand and cope with their feelings and emotions.
How to help your kids recognise their emotions: Free printable #31DaysOfLearning
A printable to help kids understand what feelings they are having.
Anxiety in kids
Ideas from KiddyCharts to help with kids expressing themselves, and focusing on improving mental health.
Positive writing prompts for kids emotional development #31DaysOfLearning
Writing prompts for children that focus on feelings, and emotional development.
31 Days Of Learning
Find all of our 31 Days of Learning events on one page! Print out our calendar and work your way through each activity! Have fun!
Friendship mindful activity for kids: Friends who lift my spirits most
Simple mindful activities for kids focusing on friends that lift us up.
And there are even more activities on the web, so do take a look too.
Activities to help your kids with their emotions
If you need more ideas to help your kids deal with their emotions then these posts are worth checking out and trying out.
Emotions Discovery Bottles Inspired By Disney’s Inside Out
Help your kids recognise their emotions with these fun emotions discovery bottles inspired by Disney's Inside Out.
Tool for teaching emotions in kids
Use these tools to help teach kids about emotions.
5 Steps to Managing Big Emotions: Printable
Join teacher Christie Burnett in this post where she shares 5 steps to managing big emotions in kids. There's also a free printable!
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Finally, we are also famous for our organisational printables, as well as our wellbeing ones, so do check them out if you get a moment. Anyone for a free two-week calendar to get themselves organised?
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Helen
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Helen is a mum to two, social media consultant, and website editor; and this site is (we think) the only Social Enterprise parenting magazine! Since giving up being a business analyst when juggling travel, work and kids proved too complicated, she founded KiddyCharts so she could be with her kids, and use those grey cells at the same time. KiddyCharts has reach of over 1.1million across social and the site. The blog works with big family brands (including travel) to help promote their services, as well as offering free resources to parents of kids under 10. It gives 51%+ profits to Reverence for Life, who fund a number of important initiatives in Africa, including bringing running water and basic equipment to a school in Tanzania. Helen has worked as a digital marketing consultant (IDM qualified) with various organisations, including Channel Mum, Truprint, Talk to Mums, and Micro Scooters. She loves to be creative in the brand campaigns she works on. Get in touch TODAY!