SEL at Home

Check out the info-graphic by Sound Discipline here!

Counselor’s Corner: Social Emotional Supports at Home

We are doing it! Give yourself a pat on the back- living with uncertainty and change is no small task. Are things perfect? No, but we are all doing our best to show up each and every day and pour our hearts into supporting our Coe children, families, and staff. Our goals is

that every child feels safe and connected no matter if they are continuing with remote learning or if they in our new hybrid model.

Today I am offering a few ways to continue your Social Emotional Supports at home. The top two strategies that help children feel safe and connected are emotion regulation techniques and open communication that focuses on feeling and connection.

Click the above link from Sound Discipline to learn more about quick tricks and tools you can put in place today to support your child during this tough transition.

Below is an overview of the tools and tricks shared in the article link above:

Emotion Regulation:

• Brain in the Hand: Help your child learn about their brain and our emotional reactions

• Calming Strategies: Four different strategies to help support calming down

• Calm Down Space: How and why to build a space that is a designated c

ool-down zone

• Co-Creating Routines: Work together to build plans and routines that feel good

Connection & Communication:

• Talk About & Validate Feelings: Four different strategies to help talk about and validate feelings

• Connect Before Correct: Speak first to the heart, then to the head

• Encouraging Statements: How and why encouragement works

• Ask Questions with Curiosity: Learn more about curiosity questions- when and why to use them