Tools for Calming Children

All children experience strong emotions. These powerful feelings can be overwhelming, confusing, and even scary for young children, yet feelings are essential for revealing children’s experiences and needs. Discussion will include identifying and understanding children’s feelings as well as strategies for helping children cope with and effectively express their feelings of anger, sadness, frustration, fear, disappointment, and more. We will also investigate why behavioral outbursts and tantrums occur and how to handle them. Learn techniques to teach skills for self-soothing.