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Helping Your Child Practise Behavioural Regulation at Home
Help a child build behavioural regulation by co-regulating first — staying calm, naming feelings, and adding small pauses and choices into everyday routines like meals, dressing and bedtime. Children learn self-control by borrowing your calm over many gentle repetitions.
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Help your 3–7-year-old build behavioural regulation by being a calm anchor: co-regulate first, name feelings, keep routines predictable, create a calm-down corner, and praise effort. The skill is still maturing at this age, so warmth and repetition matter more than discipline.
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Try "Balloon Breathing" — a 2-minute, hands-on-tummy calming game practised together daily and during calm moments. It teaches your 3–7 year old a body-based skill for big feelings through co-regulation, the foundation of self-regulation.
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