SuperKid Power: Self-Help Stress Skills For Young Children
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…
Getting MAD Feelings Out Healthily With Preschoolers
How 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:…
Becoming the Ouch Ouwee Fairy for Preschoolers
Grandma 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…
Teaching Preschoolers to Switch Gears from Tense to Calm with Paper Plate Steering Wheels
Internal 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…
Noodle Drumming to Switch Gears from Tense to Calm
Noodle 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…
Interactive Storytime Helps Children Learn Stress Skills
We 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…
Child Stress Skills: Ways to Introduce Anti-Bullying and Violence Prevention to Preschoolers
Uncooked 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…
Child Stress leaves Grandma Stress arrives
I 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…
Empower Kids with Bubble Blowing
In 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…
Superkid Power takes a confusing turn with Captain America
Capt. 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…