Tips for Parents
Doing the Noodle!
This is a script to give you some ideas about helping children relax when they are stressed, anxious or worried. The main idea is to help children be like a soft, cooked noodle and relax!
Here are the steps:
1) Start by explaining that a worried stressed body is usually stiff like an uncooked noodle that could easily be broken.
2) To relax, children want to look and feel like a cooked noodle - soft, floppy and warm
3) To do this, children loosen up their body parts by wiggling them, shaking them, and telling them to relax.
4) Children start by telling their toes to 'wiggle', then they tell their toes to 'stop' and feel warm and soft.
5) Then they do the same with the other body parts, starting with their feet, legs, bottom, tummy, hands, arms, shoulders, face and head, until their whole body feels like a soft cooked noodle lying on a plate!
(Source 'Tuning into Kids')
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