How to calm a child: 5 games to reduce anxiety

Children are like sponges, they absorb everything. Therefore, the most important advice for dealing with childhood anxiety is to keep your parents in control. You can say you're scared too, but it's important that you say it calmly.

But the best thing for kids is games. Psychologist Svetlana Roiz shared ideas for games to reduce children's anxiety.

1. The more anxiety, the more important the theme of Home. The house is an image-metaphor of the body. The image of the world. a metaphor for security, strong boundaries, safety. And houses are also important in the topic of health - illness, moving, adaptation. Houses - origami, houses for dolls, Lego houses that you can draw and paint. And now is the time to make halabudas, birdhouses.

2. Toys that can twist and turn into something else.

Toys - cocoons.
A wonderful toy - an egg, if you turn it inside out, turns into a dinosaur. Reptiles bring us back into contact with vitality.
Toys - with pockets, kangaroos, kinder surprises - all this is a metaphor for the uterus, where the child felt protected.

3. Glove toys. Toys that can be worn on the fingers, on the hand - the one who is "on my hands", in my hands - not only the one with which I can voice and live what is difficult. And this is what I can control, what becomes my mediator - between me and the world.

4. To return the boundaries, a sense of control, it is important to outline the palms, to do any crafts with the palms.

5. And also - our "house" is clothes. Anxious children can and should paint with textile paints on T-shirts and pajamas.

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