It helps everyone to be fair. There’s lessons about life, love, and pain and how to handle it throughout the series.
I’m writing this to talk about the difference its been making with my daughter and I.
My beautiful, charming, and very kind 9 year old daughter has autism and ADHD. From a young age I was aware of it and she’s had the advantage of attending a special preschool for children with disabilities. While she doesn’t have the melt downs she used to thanks to speech and occupational therapy she still has very strong emotions we’ve been trying to teach her to gain control of.
One of the best tools I’ve had of trying to address her behaviors has been through the Steven Universe song <i>here comes a thought</i>. She’s learning to identify her feelings, watch them pass, honor them, and let them go without holding onto them and thinking it’s the end of the world because let me tell you, when this child thinks she’s in trouble, she feels like she’s messed up her entire life, often times over things as simple as me asking to shut drawer she left open or pick up her things. It often depends on the day she’s having, my own emotions and how I convey them, and the over all emotional atmosphere of the house.
Today we talked about one part of the song in particular that my friend Addy told me about that is literally perfectly timed to take coming breaths in and out.
inhale but it’s not, but it’s not, but it’s not, but it’s not, but it’s not.
I saw the lights go off in her eyes in understanding and we practiced it together to the song to help her.
I really don’t know if this is something that’s been shared or addressed before as I’m not a participant in the Steven Universe Fandom, but being able to see my amazing child under stand a healthy way to address the emotions that so often consume her brought me to tears.
Maybe it’ll help someone else out there with their child.
Reblogging to my other accounts in case it helps anyone
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