If you’ve ever been in a situation where your children or students are running out of control, you should help them self-regulate by first focusing on yourself. Self-regulation is about learning to adapt to stressors in the environment so that you can get back to a calm state, and it’s important for everyone to learn. When someone around you is having a tantrum, you should focus on calming yourself first so that you can then help them co-regulate.
Key Takeaways:
- If you want to teach your children or students how to self-regulate, you should start with yourself.
- Self-regulation is different than self-control, and everyone should learn to do it.
- If you focus on staying calm when interacting with a stressed child, you can help them self-regulate.
“Self-control focuses on suppressing certain behaviours, whereas our definition of self-regulation focuses on the way we manage the tension from stressors in our environment and then return to calm.”
Read more: https://blog.goodchildhood.org.au/2020/02/12/teaching-self-regulation-in-early-childhood/
