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Creative Way For Children To Share Their Feelings While Being Stuck At Home

Abril 3, 2020 by Natacha

A friend of mine who lives in the UK, has twin daughters aged 10. She came up with a brilliantly creative idea to help the girls identify the positives of being at home in lockdown. This was also an opportunity to explore and discuss casually about how the girls are feeling about it all. She asked them to write 5 negatives and 5 positives of the lockdown. After which they shared and discussed their feelings and thoughts and then put a positive spin on it and created signs for themselves to put around the house.

This you can try at home.

Here are their examples:

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Hi there, I’m Natacha.
Play Therapist, wife and mother.

Social Worker specialising in Play Therapy.
BA (Social Work) MDiac (Play Therapy)
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I received my BA(Social Work) from the University of Pretoria, and wrote my dissertation “Parenting Styles affecting the behaviour of 5 year olds” for my Masters in Play Therapy through Unisa.

I am a speaker at events and have also been featured in articles for publications.

I have a practice in the East of Pretoria, but  also do Video consultations.

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