Introduction to Self-Regulation

Self-regulation is the ability to monitor and control our bodies, emotions, and thoughts, and changing them as needed. There are many strong or difficult emotions that need  need regulating. Children can experience a range of  reactions  with difficult emotions (i.e. sweat, heart races, yell, stomp, cry) Many students identified feelings of frustration, anger, sadness and sometimes all of those mixed together.
To get us thinking about how to regulate our behaviours, we played the game, Red Light, Green Light. Students made connections that cars must regulate their driving to be aware of what is happening around them (just like our feelings!)