1.) Explore which movement  (vestibular) activities work for your child:

✔ Bouncing on a yoga ball, a Hippity Hop or Rody
✔ Swinging
✔ Holding their hands and letting them climb up your body and flip over (example here)
✔ Dance party
✔ Jumping rope/10 giant jumps
✔ Spinning on an office chair
✔ Set up "stones" on the floor with yoga blocks, books, etc. and have your child hop from stone to stone
✔ Jumping on a trampoline

2.) Sprinkle activities throughout your child's day:

Every time your child engages in an activity that regulates their nervous system, it's like charging their battery. They're able to cope with the daily stressors of life (loud noises, screens, bright lights, schedule changes, unknown expectations etc.) with more ease. When you add an activity to your child's day, research shows it recharges their battery for 90-120 minutes. This means that we can best support kids by offering a regulating activity every two hours or so, to keep their battery from being drained excessively.

3.) Use movement as a coping strategy:

✔ Would you like to have a dance party before we solve this problem?
✔ Would you like to do some big bounces to help your body calm?
✔ Would like to do some spins before we chat about this?

We all have unique sensory profiles,

which means that the way our central nervous system regulates will be unique, too. Our nervous system processes input through our 8 sensory systems:

Hey there, I'm Alyssa Blask Campbell
And as a teacher & a parent, I get it.

I'm a teacher, parent, and an emotional development expert with a master's degree in early childhood education. I co-created the Collaborative Emotion Processing method, and researched it across the country.

My book, Tiny Humans, Big Emotions is publishing in October with HarperCollins!

I'm on a mission to change the ways adults experience children’s emotions so we can respond with intention to raise emotionally intelligent humans.