Help Your Kids Calm Down: Strategy #2 Progressive Muscle Relaxation
This is the second post in the series about strategies to help kids to calm down. If you haven’t already seen it, be sure to read the post on Belly Breathing. This second technique is more helpful if kids can already do slow, deep breaths. The second helpful technique for teaching kids (and teens and adults) to calm down is Progressive Muscle Relaxation. Although I tell kids the real name of this technique when they learn it, we usually end up calling it “Tense and Relax.” Th