Facilitator: Janai Mestrovich aka Grandma Boom aka Freedom Fairy and Xmas Fairy in Ashland Parades TESTIMONIALS: “I took a deep breath instead of hitting my sister.” 5 yr. Old “I squeezed my mad feelings out on a sponge.” 4 yr. Old “I took deep breaths and shook my body to
Read MoreHow do we begin preventing massacres? I am doing my two cents worth and have for 40 years! Another session today….Teaching 30 preschoolers healthy ways to get MAD feelings out: Artwork marking X where mad/anger starts in the body and where it feels good with a star when we release
Read MoreGrandma Boom strikes again….as the OUCH OUWEE FAIRY for 32 preschoolers. Had a blast teaching them that getting tense when we get an ouwee makes the ouwee worse. Did a self-calming song with them, helping baby dinosaurs to feel better with deep breathing, drummed to ouch and then to calming
Read MoreInternal steering wheel symbol I created out of paper plates to teach preschoolers (so they could see externally what was going on inside their inner worlds) self-control from tense to calm with deep breaths. Since I was costumed as a bee, we buzzed like tense bumble bees holding our wheels
Read MoreNoodle Drumming! I was a bumble bee buzzing with tense sounds, then took deep breaths and switched gears buzzing calmly. Over 30 daycare children joined in. Noodle drumming…egg noodles on mother drum move just slightly when we are calm drummers but jump high in the air when we switch gears
Read MoreWe were IN the story together! I was Smoothie, the Bee, getting 2-5 yr. olds to help me teach my brother, Buzzbee, how to calm himself so he wouldn’t hurt his little bee head bumping into flowers anymore. We drummed and buzzed fast and tense, took deep breaths, calmed ourselves,
Read MoreUncooked noodles were flying all over the floor. 22 children, ages 3-5, waited to do Noodle Drumming, learning about their hearts today at a daycare/preschool. We felt our hearts beating slowly, speeded them up running in place, then slowed them down with deep belly button breathing.They LOVED Noodle Drumming! We
Read MoreI couldn’t watch the whole time because it was a bit nauseating to me. His legs were too short. So he asked me to do the foot pedals on the race car video game. Between my footwork and his steering there was a record number of crashes, I’m sure. It’s
Read MoreIn my program I teach/demonstrate that slow, deep breaths make big bubbles and small, irregular breaths make small ones. Great way to teach children the FEELING of having calm self-control with fun bubbles because they can also SEE direct results. Grayson was very happy with his slow deep breath big
Read MoreCapt. America announced he was wearing his new Halloween costume to daycare Mon. morning when I was caring for my grandies. I told him we needed to check with his mom about that. “But Grandma, YOU are HER mom so why do you have to ask her since you are
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