Hi. I teach yoga to children and so helping children become aware of their feelings and how to handle it is part of my teaching. In our child's case, I teach them to some yoga poses e.g. "VOLCANO" to express their feeling. It works all the time with my 5 years old daughter. I do it with her in the beginning and now she does it on her own and tell me why she's angry after. Before you teach the pose, teach them about "Volcano", tell them about what happened in iceland. The volcano has very hot lava inside, and when it erupts, it makes a very loud sound, and lava is liquid rock....etc.... Once she has knowledge about volcano. When she gets angry one, then ask her how she feels, "Do you feel like a volcano boiling inside? Let's imagine we are volcano and jump the feet apart, palms together, imagine you can put all your feelings into the volcano, sadness, worries, anger etc. and boiling(deep breath in -arms up & breath out -arms down to side, breath in again palms together and breath out until volcano ready to erupt and jump up with arms wide open, release all feelings like the lava gushing out. Children already calm down by taking few good breaths and visualizing releasing their negative feelings is a way to deal with them. so try it, i hope your girl will like it. regarding the method of red, green light, I don't know about it, maybe someone can share with us....作者: sidneywong 時間: 2010-5-21 16:56
Emotion & logic relate to right & left brain respectively. You can ask the kid 3 logic questions or if she needs you to buy something,you can ask 3 reasons for you to buy it. Then theorectically, she will use another half brain to think of it. Then the temper will stop. It work for my 2 years old kid.作者: myrchan 時間: 2010-6-1 15:46
