by Hannah Beach | Apr 7, 2020 | Aggression, Arts, Emotional Health, Emotional Release, Expression, Feelings, Hands-on Activities
This is a great activity for kids ages five to eleven. (These ages are approximate and are suggested guidelines only.) What’s the benefit? This activity can help a child think about frustration and what it feels like inside of them. It can also help...
by Hannah Beach | Apr 2, 2020 | Aggression, Anxiety, Emotional Health, Emotional Release, Feelings
Like many of us, my family recently learned that my son’s school would be shut down due to the coronavirus epidemic. On his last day of school before the shut down, we were chatting, when he casually told me he had been playing “coronavirus tag” with his friends at...
by Hannah Beach | Mar 25, 2020 | Anxiety, Attachment, Building Relationship, Connection, Emotional Health, Emotional Release, Emotional Safety, Feelings, Hands-on Activities, Play
Whether we are a parent, a teacher or a child-care provider, many of us are asking ourselves how we can best support the children in our care during this stressful time of uncertainty around the COVID-19 virus. There are universal strategies that we can use to help...
by Hannah Beach | Mar 11, 2020 | Attachment, Building Relationship, Community Building, Connection, Emotional Safety
In my past two blogs, I have shared about the attachment rituals of collecting (creating a conscious invitation into relationship) and bridging (keeping relationship alive even while disciplining). This blog is about the art of matchmaking and how we can use it to...
by Hannah Beach | Feb 20, 2020 | Attachment, Building Relationship, Connection, Discipline, Emotional Safety, Feelings
In my last blog about collecting, I spoke about how creating a conscious invitation into relationship is a vital part of creating emotionally safe learning communities. It is relationship that helps children to feel safe with us. It is through relationship that their...