Även om mycket av idéerna är menade för lite äldre barn, känner jag att det finns mycket jag redan har börjat använda. Som att nämna känslor som kommer för att Noah ska lära sig att känna igen känslor och hur man kan handskas med dom. Eller tänka på att istället för att bara tappa tålamodet försöka möta Noah på en fysik känslomässig nivå när allt bara rasar för honom. Eller att hjälpa honom att komma använda minne genom att prata igenom vad vi gjort under dagen.
Här nedan kommer deras korta reminder som dom tycker att man borde ha på kylskåpet
Refrigerator Sheet from The Whole Brain Child
by Daniel Siegel, MD and Tina Payne Bryson, PH.D
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Integrating the Left and Right brain
- Left + Right= clarity and understanding: help your kids use both the logical left brain and the emotional right brain as a team.
- What you can do:
- Connect and redirect when your child is upset, connect first emotionally, right brain to right brain. Then when your child is more in control and receptive, bring in the left brain lessons and discipline.
- Name it to tame it When big, right brain emtions are raging out of control, help your child tell the story about what upsetting them, so their left brain can help making sense of their experience and they feel more in control.
- Integrating the upstairs brain and the downstairs brain
- Develop the upstairs brain: watch for ways to help build the sophisticated upstairs brain, which is “under construction” during childhood and adolescence and can be “hijacked” by the downstairs brain, especially in high emotion situations.
- What you can do:
- Engage, don't enrage: In high stress situations, engage your child's upstairs brain, rather then triggering the downstairs brain. Don't immediatly play the "Because I said so!" card. Instead ask questions, request alternatives, even negotiate.
- Use it or lose it Provide lots of opportunities to exercise the uppstairs brain. Play "what would you do?" games and avoid rescuing your child from difficult stuiations.
- Move it or lose it: When a child has lost touch with his upstairs brain, help her regain balance by having her to move her body.
- Integrating Memory
- Make the implicit explicit: help your kids make their implicit memories explicit, so that past experiences don’t affect them in debilitating ways.
- What you can do:
- Use the remote of the mind: When a child is reluctant to narrate a painful event, the internal remote lets her pause, rewind and fast forward a story as she tells it, so she can maintain control.
- Remember to remember:Help your kids exercise their memoryby giving them lots of practice at recalling events.
- Integrating the many parts of myself
- The wheel of awareness: when your kids get stuck on one particular point on the rim of their wheel of awareness, help them choose where they focus their attention so they can gain more control over how they feel.
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What you can do:
- Let the clouds of emotions roll by: Remind kids that feelings come and go, they are temporary states and not enduring traits.
- SIFT: Help your children to pay attention to the Sensations, Images, Feelings and Thoughts in them.
- Execerices mindsight: Mindsight practices teach children to calm themself and focus their attention on what they want.
- Integrating Self and Others
- Wired for “we”: watch for ways to capitalize on the brain’s built-in capacity for social interaction. Create positive mental models of relationship.
- What you can do:
- Enjoy each other: build fun into the family, so that your kids enjoy positive and satisfying experiences with the people they’re with the most.
- Connect through conflict: instead of an obstacle to avoid, view conflict as an opportunity to teach your kids essential relationship skills, like seeing other people’s perspectives, reading non-verbal cues, and making amends.
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