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    This document provides an analogy to help children understand and regulate their emotions. It suggests pretending the brain is a house with an upstairs thinking brain and downstairs feeling brain. When overwhelmed with emotions, the downstairs feeling brain takes over and the thinking brain shuts down, making it harder to make good decisions or think things through. The analogy aims to help children handle stress better, become more resilient, and interpret and regulate their emotions by recognizing when their feeling brain has taken over and using techniques to calm down and allow their thinking brain to engage again.

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    This document provides an analogy to help children understand and regulate their emotions. It suggests pretending the brain is a house with an upstairs thinking brain and downstairs feeling brain. When overwhelmed with emotions, the downstairs feeling brain takes over and the thinking brain shuts down, making it harder to make good decisions or think things through. The analogy aims to help children handle stress better, become more resilient, and interpret and regulate their emotions by recognizing when their feeling brain has taken over and using techniques to calm down and allow their thinking brain to engage again.

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    Analogy To Help Your Child Understand Their Big Emotions UK

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    This document provides an analogy to help children understand and regulate their emotions. It suggests pretending the brain is a house with an upstairs thinking brain and downstairs feeling brain. When overwhelmed with emotions, the downstairs feeling brain takes over and the thinking brain shuts down, making it harder to make good decisions or think things through. The analogy aims to help children handle stress better, become more resilient, and interpret and regulate their emotions by recognizing when their feeling brain has taken over and using techniques to calm down and allow their thinking brain to engage again.

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    AN ANALOGY TO HELP YOUR CHILD UNDERSTAND

    THEIR BIG EMOTIONS

    USE THIS ANALOGY TO TEACH YOUR CHILD HOW THEIR BRAIN WORKS SO THEY CAN:
    Handle stress better
    Become more resilient
    Interpret and regulate their emotions

    PRETEND YOUR BRAIN IS A HOUSE:


    The upstairs = your thinking brain
    The downstairs = your feeling brain

    THE UPSTAIRS BRAIN HELPS YOU: THE DOWNSTAIRS BRAIN HELPS YOU:
    Understand your emotions Feel all kinds of emotions (anger,
    sadness, and joy)
    Focus & concentrate
    Be aware of potential dangers
    Make decisions

    WHEN YOU'RE OVERWHELMED WITH EMOTIONS...


    your downstairs "feeling" brain takes over.

    your upstairs "thinking" brain shuts down.

    WHEN THE DOWNSTAIRS BRAIN IS IN


    CHARGE, IT'S HARDER TO:
    Make good decisions
    Learn and remember
    Think things through

    TO HELP YOUR BRAIN GET BACK IN BALANCE...


    recognize the body signs showing your FEELING BRAIN has taken over.
    use a technique to calm down so your THINKING BRAIN can turn back on.

    ©Big Life Journal | BigLifeJournal-uk.co.uk


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