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Parents: How to Use Super Power LISTEN with YOUR Family

This video compliments Hedgy's Guide to Calm PDF or EPUB book and Hedgy's Guide to Teaching Hedgy's Guide to Calm PDF (found on www.supercalmhedgy.com). 

Please take the Hedgy's Guide to Calm 21 Day Challenge yourself! 

The 21 days will help you to become familiar with how to use the Super Powers to Becoming a Super-Calm YOU before adding them to your family's's daily rhythm and routine 

AND 

will provide YOU with the tools and skills to help calm YOURSELF down. 

Calm parent + Calm children = A calm and loving home environment 

Before teaching the individual Super Powers, I would highly recommend you introduce Hedgy (your lovable and trustworthy guide) and 'Hedgy's Calm Action Song'. The MP3 with the first five Super Powers is found at www.supercalmhedgy.com along with Hedgy's Calm Action Cards (Hedgy performing each action that goes with the song). Sing and move with Hedgy's Calm Action Song all day long and then slowly introduce each Super Power separately. (Use the MP3 with VISUALIZE. once you are ready to introduce Super Power VISUALIZE to your children.) Hedgy (and I) will guide you through how to teach and use each of the Super Powers to Becoming a Super-Calm YOU! beginning with Super Power 1) STOP. followed by Super Power 3) LISTEN. STOP. and LISTEN. are two very powerful Super Powers. 

Now that your children have practiced using their Super Power STOP. for a period of time, it is time to introduce Super Power 2) LISTEN. Super Power LISTEN. will teach your students to become more "in tune" with how their own body responds to different situations by listening to the "sounds your body is making". You can begin by playing the "FREEZE" games I described for practicing STOP. and when your children are frozen, have them LISTEN to the sounds their body is making by mindfully scanning their own bodies from head to toe. 

You can guide your children by describing how your own body is responding. (This may be examples of how your body is responding because you have been moving during the game.) "My inner voice is telling myself to FREEZE and not move. My nose is sniffling. My mouth is talking (to you!). I am breathing heavily. My heart beating loudly. My stomach is gurgling." 

Play the game a second time and have your children describe what is going on in their own bodies to themselves, a friend, the whole class, and/or in a journal. 

A good journal prompt may be: 

Today I (PLAYED A FREEZE GAME) and I STOP.ped and scanned my body using my Super Power 3) LISTEN. and sounds my body made was (ANSWER HERE). 

Encourage them to also draw what their body was doing. I would also have the students begin to use Super Powers STOP. and LISTEN. during circle and meeting time and before and after transitions. 

If you notice that one or more of your students looks sad, mad, upset, stressed, or excited support them is using their Super Powers STOP. and LISTEN. Super Power LISTEN. can be silly and THAT'S OK! Let your students have fun describing the sounds their body makes, like burping, belching, tooting, and farting. (You can even include swearing.). 

Laughter is a great sound our bodies make and can help create a fun and loving home environment. This can also be a good time for a teaching moment by reminding your students that there is a time a place for some sounds our bodies make. Discuss where and when these sounds are appropriate and to respond if we make these sounds in a place that is not. ("Excuse me, please.") 

TAKE - YOUR - TIME 

The Super Powers to Becoming a Super-Calm YOU are a WHOLE life skills and it is beneficial for them to be learned over an extended period of time for a better understanding and to allow "new behaviors to become automatic and enacted with minimum conscious awareness because the repetitive behavioral patterns are literally etched into our neural pathways.” - Psychology Today 

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Parents: How to Use Super Power LISTEN with YOUR Family