Description
Understanding how the brain and body work together to manage emotions is essential for raising calm, confident, and self-aware children. Issue #3: Building Emotional Balance is a 52-page digital magazine that explores the brain-body connection behind self-regulation and offers actionable strategies rooted in child development and neuroscience.
This issue dives into nine essential brain areas that support emotional regulation—from the amygdala and hypothalamus to mirror neurons and the prefrontal cortex. You’ll discover how each system influences behavior, why it matters, and how to support it through everyday interactions at school and home.
Whether you’re a therapist, teacher, or parent, this issue will give you the knowledge and tools to help children build lasting emotional balance—without overwhelm.
What’s Inside Raising Self-Regulated Kids – Issue #3: Building Emotional Balance
- Understand the Brain-Body Connection: Learn how each part of the brain influences regulation, attention, and emotion—broken down in a simple, visual format.
- Nine Key Brain Areas Explained: Get practical strategies for supporting the amygdala, hypothalamus, vagus nerve, cerebellum, basal ganglia, mirror neurons, hippocampus, prefrontal cortex, and default mode network.
- Co-Regulation and Modeling: Explore how parents and caregivers can model self-regulation and provide calming support in daily routines.
- Age-Appropriate Strategies: From infancy to adulthood, discover sensory regulation ideas tailored to each stage of development.
- Bonus Self-Reflection Quiz: Identify which brain area may need the most attention and guidance—perfect for personal insight or professional use.
- Printable Resources Included:
- Build-Your-Own Regulation Plan
- Brain-Based Strategies
- Self-Regulation Quick Review Sheet
Perfect for:
✔️ Occupational and physical therapists
✔️ Special educators and classroom teachers
✔️ Parents and caregivers
✔️ Pediatric psychologists and counselors
New to the series? Begin with Issue #1: The Science Behind Self-Regulation, a foundational guide that explains how brain development and sensory pathways shape a child’s ability to self-regulate. Raising Self-Regulated Kids – Issue #2: Self-Regulation in a Busy World is a digital magazine that explores how modern environments can overwhelm a child’s developing brain and what adults can do to support balance, calm, and emotional resilience.
