• Accept and validate children’s fears; don’t avoid talking about stressful events or dismiss children’s worries
• Use positive forecasting about their future
• Don’t avoid all situations or experiences that worry or upset your child; children need to learn how to manage them successfully
• Limit exposure to sensational media coverage
• Help children to be aware of their positive feelings when they are brave, or confident, or calm, patient, happy and curious
• Reassure children that they are not to blame for problems that are beyond their control.
• Listen empathically and normalize children’s feelings
• Be physically affectionate
• Praise children for staying calm and using a self-regulation strategy
• Provide consistency and regularity to children’s daily routine
• Use puppets and pretend play to enhance children’s learning of emotion self-regulation
• Model positive self-regulation, staying calm, being patient and using power breathing, positive self-talk and visualization of happy times.
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