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By Laura Driscoll https://www.socialemotionalworkshop.com/calming-strategy-activity-deep-breathing/?utm_source=Pinterest&utm_medium=organic Deep breathing is one of the best calming strategies you can teach your students. It’s effective and they always have it with them. While it is simple, students often need to be exposed to it many times and in many different ways. This calming strategy activity has students make their own breathing …

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The books in this series are quick, simple to read, useful resources for parents and teachers. They will give you a common language to use to help children self-regulate. Kids learn well through repetition, and simple easy to ‘get’ kid-language. Your child will incorporate the idea of ‘I Can Handle It’ almost immediately after reading …

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Squash It! is a hands-on social emotional learning game designed to help children explore and understand a wide range of feelings and situations. The set includes 10 soft, squishable animal characters—each individually wrapped—plus 10 character description cards and 42 situation cards covering important emotional topics. The 42 Situation Cards guide players through scenarios related to …

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Parents, educators, therapists, and social workers alike have declared The Invisible String the perfect tool for coping with all kinds of separation anxiety, loss, and grief. It’s also been joyfully embraced as a year-round celebration of love–gifted at births, graduations, weddings, Valentine’s Day, and beyond. In this relatable and reassuring contemporary classic, a mother tells her two …

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“I’m BORED!” wails a little girl after her screen time is cut short. “That’s great!” her dad says with a grin. “Being bored comes right before having a Really Good Idea.” After an initial protest, the little girl dives into her imagination, and takes the reader with her on a whirlwind ride of pure fun. A cardboard …

I’m (Almost) Never Bored: A Picture Book About Imagination, Creative Play, and Fun Ideas for Children (Ages 3-7)  Read More »