by boot | Mar 10, 2025
To help your child(ren) ground themselves or focus, engage them in this simple activity. Begin with a grounding exercise. This can include standing up or sitting tall, noticing their feet firmly on the ground, and then putting their focus into their feet and feeling...
by boot | Mar 10, 2025
Anxiety and fear are worries about what may happen in the future, so bringing the mind back to the present is a good way to develop resilience. Mindfulness is simply paying attention, and the best way to pay attention is by using your breath. Mindful meditation helps...
by boot | Mar 10, 2025
Make different emotion faces and have children guess how you’re feeling. Find pictures of people with different expressions and have children label the emotions. Create a resource of “faces” with different emotions and talk about what they mean. Ask children to choose...
by boot | Mar 10, 2025
Look at the pages that show the child playing with their shadow. Can you find the source of light? What is blocking the light to make the shadow? Is the shadow short? Long? Where else do you see shadows in the book? (wolves)
by boot | Mar 10, 2025
Ask your child(ren) how the story makes them feel. Pause at various points throughout the story (while the child is waiting for their shadow to return, when the wind howls like wolves, when the snowflakes feel prickly and sharp) and ask them how that page makes them...
