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ITS offers parents actionable ways to guide kids in personal growth. Self-regulation training (managing stress, thoughts, emotions, responses) can increase a sense of agency - that "I got this feeling." As agency increases (reflected by confident capability), stress and anxiety decreases.
The articles below offer skills, strategies, & 💡 that foster the "I got this" feeling.
Article Index
Getting Started ITS
Activity-Based Learning
- Mistake-Friendly Art
- Mistake-Friendly Learning Reduces Perfectionism
- The Color of Emotion
- Sparking Conversation: The Family Dinner Project
- A Tale of Two Temperaments
Caregiver Care
- What if I'm Anxious Too? A Parent Script for Tough Moments
- Drawing Boundaries with "Doomrollers"
- Woo-Hoo! A Book Review!
- Radical Acceptance: Making Peace with What You Can't Control
- 3 Ways to Build Radical Acceptance
Coping Strategies
- Distancing: Love Your "Inner Cave Person"
- Capturing Emotions in Worlds Calms the Nervous System
- Help Your Child Label Their Emotions, Not Themselves
- A Handy Acronym to Help Kids Stay Cool
- I Do, We Do, You Do: A Confidence Builder
Emotion Coaching
- Parent's Co-Regulate Kids' Nervous Systems
- Guidelines for Helping Kids in Emotional Moments
- The (Hyper)Logic of Teen Brains
- A Flexible Approach to Get Teens Outside
- A Visual Model of Feelings
- Your Kid is Already in the "Real World"
- Temperament: A Little Role Play
The Stress Response
- Understanding the Sensory Nature of Threat
- Threat or Challenge: Control is Everything
- Inner-Outer Travel Guide (Fight or Flight Edition)
- Inner-Outer Travel Guide (Balance + Temperament Edition)
- Responding to Young People's Fear of School Violence
