The Self-Regulation Workbook for Children Ages 5 to 8: A Parent-Child Resource for Engaging in Healthy Coping Skills and Building Connection

Both caregivers and children can benefit from this workbook offering helpful guidance on essential emotional regulation skills such as co-regulation, frustration tolerance, expressing feelings, caregiver reflection, and child self-control, through fun and engaging activities.

Written by experienced child therapists who are parents themselves, this workbook uses the foremost knowledge and methods to help both caregivers and children build strong relationships and instill useful regulation tools in their everyday lives. Follow along with fun activities used to teach caregivers how to realistically adapt to meet children’s emotional needs. Activities and guidance include:

• How to use play and connection as a baseline approach
• Naming and noticing feelings
• Guidance for building emotional resilience and reflection in your child
• Emotion regulation strategies for the caregiver to use during tough moments
• Learning the strengths and limits of a child's brain and nervous system
• How to use parent reflection to better understand and respond to challenging child behaviors
• How to set limits and repair ruptures
• Guidance from enduring theory and research on child emotion regulation
• And so much more!

The Self Regulation Workbook for Children Ages 5 to 8 can be used as a family activity, a child-caregiver activity, a caregiver-only intervention, and a child-only activity that fosters confidence in those striving to provide an emotionally supportive environment for children.