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Parents attend Snowline Joint Unified–area workshop on calming and behavior strategies for children
Summary
A Spanish-language parent workshop offered practical tools — breathing exercises, visual supports, routines and connection techniques — for helping children regulate emotions and behavior. Facilitators described the "executive, emotional and survival" brain states and provided free materials and follow-up classes for families with young children.
A Spanish-language parent workshop in the Snowline Joint Unified area focused on practical strategies for helping children manage behavior and emotions, with facilitators demonstrating breathing exercises, visual supports and routines for home and school.
The facilitator explained that children and adults use three broad brain states — an "executive" state for learning, an "emotional" state for upset, and a "survival" state for crisis — and said parents should aim to remain in an executive state to teach self-regulation. The facilitator said, "tenemos que siempre estar en el estado ejecutivo" ("we must always be in the executive state") and led examples of calming tools parents can practice with children when they are calm so the techniques will work when children become upset.
Why it matters: Participants were given take-home materials and simple, low-cost strategies intended to reduce…
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