Superhero Training in Self-Regulation
Will my child know how to connect to their breath when they need to?
This learning guide helps to transition a child's knowledge of how to use their breath into a skill they can use to self-regulate their emotions, anytime, anywhere.
What is self-regulation?
Self-regulation refers to your ability to acknowledge and manage your reactions and behaviors to the feelings you are experiencing. Learning to self-regulate is essential for healthy social-emotional development.
How does My Friend Breath teach self-regulation?
My Friend Breath offers one simple self-regulation strategy, the breath. By learning how to connect to their breath a child will have a strategy they can use to calm their nervous system and self-regulate their emotions, anytime, anywhere.
The book My Friend Breath, combined with the seven-companion learning guides, empowers children with the knowledge of WHY their breath is magical and HOW they can use their breath to self-calm.
By using the read-along script alongside the book, you are given clear instructions on what to say, what to ask and what to do to help a child apply the knowledge they have gained into everyday situations This will help to consolidate their understanding of how to manage uncomfortable emotions, anytime anywhere, using their friend Breath.
How to use this learning guide
First, you’ll follow the read- along script with the companion book My Friend Breath that helps children to apply the knowledge they have gained into everyday situations.
Next, you’ll use the online flip-cards and listening activity to check the child’s understanding of self-regulation, and identify any points that would benefit from being revisited.
Then, it’s time to play! Use the QR Codes or clickable links for quick and easy access to each of the online activities and games to further consolidate learning.
To support the self-regulation practice we suggest you print copies of the My Friend Breath check-in activity for your child to use on a regular basis.
And then once all Superhero Training activities have been completed, your child can take the online Superhero Quiz. Completing the quiz is required to officially become a superhero and join The My Friend Breath Superhero Club. You can then print, complete, and present them with their certificate. Woohoo!
