Flip your lid

Based on ‘flipping your lid’ by Dan Siegel – this activity is to bring awareness to young people around the role of the brain during the anger/anxiety cycle. Boy/Girl activity options. #emotions #upstairsdownstairsbrain #activitiesforkids #brainforkids #emotionalregulation

The best way to teach kids how to be self-aware and empathic towards others is by teaching them about how their brain works. This is a simple model of the brain that explains what happens when you flip your lid. #wholebrain #raisingkidswithpurpose #neuroscience

Tantrums? Neuroscience, emotions, and behavior. Flipping your lid and the Hand Model of the Brain by Dr. Dan Siegel

This little video explains why it's SO HARD to calm down once we're set off. This hand model of the brain is based on the work of Dr. Dan Siegel.

Hand-Brain Model This video provides a brief overview of Dr. Daniel Siegel's hand-brain model and the concept of 'flipping your lid' (https://www.attachment-and-trauma-treatment-centre-for-healing.com/uploads/4/0/5/4/4054075/flipping_lid_infographic.pdf). This is a great way to teach children, youth, parents, caregivers, and professionals about affect regulation, the window of tolerance, and integration to promote regulation. I hope that this will be helpful for you. Please also see the…

Understanding how our brain works helps my students understand how and why they have the impulses and the reactions they do. Once they are aware of their impulses they can use strategies to self...

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Savvy Advocate Mom and More: Taciturn Tuesday: When You Flip Your Lid

A blog about Occupational Therapy ideas, crafts, handwriting and cursive writing activities, visual perceptual skills, sensory processing. Check out some great impulse strategies recommended by an Occupational Therapist. #implusestrategies #occupational

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What happens when your children have tantrums? This metaphor using your thumb and fist as a brain, will help you remember the brain science.

Flip flap is a fun and quick run around game that will get your children's competitive streaks going!

Your Fantastic Elastic Brain! This is a great book for starting the school yea! Plus, there's a freebie to accompany the book and get to know your students at the start of the school year!

We have been focusing lately on our brains and the way in which it controls our emotions. In particular, we've been discussing our downstairs brain and our upstairs brain. The ...

I place a repurposed parmesan cheese lid on a standard 1/2-pint canning jar. See how it simplifies my life in the kitchen. #TexasHomesteader