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There are many skills that take great effort for children to muster from an early age, and one of them is the ability to calm themselves down.

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In a recent newsletter, the Pennsylvania Key’s Infant Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation (IECMHC) provided resources on methods to help calm children down and how to teach children to calm themselves down.

Children are not born with self-control, the IECMHC wrote in the newsletter, so it’s important that caregivers help children to grow their ability to control their emotions, respond in appropriate ways to frustration, get along with others, and become independent.

The IECMHC’s resources discuss how caregivers can help young children learn skills to help them control or regulate themselves and how a calm-down corner – a special area of the classroom with calming materials and tools – can be useful for when children’s emotions feel too big for them.

Resources in the newsletter on calming corners and other calming methods include:

• Calm Down Corners (The Pennsylvania Key)
• How to Set Up and Use a Calming Corner for Kids
• The Peace Corner: An Essential Classroom Resource
• Break Card: When to Use
• Self-Regulation Breathing Strategies
• “We Can Be Problem Solvers” children’s book
• Relaxation in a Bottle activity