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These PeaceMakers Cards provide that mindfulness element that is so important to develop in young children - how to be aware of your feelings as well as adjust them when necessary. They would also be great conversation starters at mealtimes or while driving to school. I have found that it really helps the girls to calm their bodies and minds right before bed, so I highly recommend that time of day for this. We choose one card, read what it says, and then talk about how it makes us feel or what it means to us. We decided to begin by using our PeaceMakers Cards twice a day: once in the morning at Circle Time, and once right before bedtime so Daddy could also take part in the discussion. N can’t quite express it as much yet at just 2 years old, but boy, is she listening and learning! L is about to turn 4 years old, and she is fully able to have these conversations with us. These can be used for talking about feelings and different ways to express them - which I love because it helps us to discuss big feelings BEFORE they happen as well as remember back to past big feelings and explore them together. Spoiler alert: they have never said no.Īnother piece of the Time-In Toolkit is a set of PeaceMakers Cards.
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I DO ask if they need to take a break in the Calming Corner when I notice that they can’t quite handle their big feelings, and they are free to say yes or no. I do not send the girls there when they are “misbehaving” or having a meltdown. Please note: this Calming Corner is NOT a time-out corner. Our bin is made up of items that the girls chose or that I know help them to calm down from my past observations - yours might have many of the same things, or it might be completely different based on your child’s interests.
Generation Mindful has developed a comprehensive Time-In Toolkit to help parents provide that same kind of opportunity for teaching mindfulness and using calming strategies at home, and we’ve been testing it out for about a month now. In a Montessori classroom, you might find a peace corner or thinking chair - a space that a child can go when her feelings are too big or she just needs to take a break. Children are sent to an isolated spot for a “time-out” when what their behavior is suggesting is rather the need for a better connection and way of verbalizing feelings so that they can be regulated appropriately.īuilding social-emotional skills is a huge part of the Montessori idea of an education for the whole child. The ways little ones express their big feelings - meltdowns, not following directions, physical violence, nasty words, full-on tantrums - are often misunderstood by adults as misbehavior or something that needs to be punished. I am teaming up with Generation Mindful this week to share some amazing ways to teach mindfulness and come up with some calming strategies that your child can use to help conquer some of those big feelings - and I have an awesome giveaway for my birthday at the end of this post! 😉 If you have ever been around young children, you know that they can have some BIG feelings for such little people! Understanding how to handle those feelings is not something that comes naturally - but it CAN be taught.
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