Cope2Hope

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SERVICE is a great way to cope with challenging emotions because it requires you to think outside yourself and choose to help others.

Teaching kids ways to serve can be as simple as giving hugs, helping a sibling clean up, or saying kind words to someone, as well as doing things like raking leaves, taking a meal or helping a neighbor.

What service have you done this week that helped someone else? Add the phrases, "thanks for helping serve" and "how does it make you feel to help someone else?" to your interactions with your kids to help kids recognize when they are serving others.

Feeling WORRIED is an emotion that can pile up on us if we don't take the time to label the emotion and figure out what is causing us to worry. So imagine how hard it is for kids to process WORRY! Kids can track the emotions of their caregivers, so they add extra worry to their own. Their behavior may reflect how they are feeling when they don't know how to verbalize it.

Have you asked your child what worries them lately?

Ask them! It is important for you and them to connect and work together to manage and cope with BIG and hard emotions.

The physical act of PUSHING A WALL can release BIG emotions and if you model the behavior when you are upset, angry, or frustrated and ask kids to come help they will also join in.

This works great for all ages, but particularly well for toddlers. Asking toddlers to help push the wall back a bit excited their superhero imagination and they give it all they got. Practice doing it with them when they are calm, then remind them when BIG emotions surface.