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Raffi’s “Take A Breath” (The Self-Reg Song) Can Help Children Deal with Stress

Raffi’s “Take A Breath” (The Self-Reg Song) Can Help Children Deal with Stress

Singer-songwriter Raffi, along with being known as “the most popular children’s singer in the English-speaking world” (The Washington Post) is renowned for his advocacy on behalf of children. He just released a song that can help children and adults deal in a very simple way with the stresses and anxieties of everyday life.

Think, Feel, Act: Lessons from research about young children (Ontario Ministry of Education)

What Is Self-Regulation?
Just about everywhere you turn these days you come across someone talking about the importance of enhancing children’s ability to self-regulate. This is because of a growing number of studies showing that self-regulation lays a foundation for a child’s long-term physical, psychological, behavioral, and educational well-being (Shanker, 2012).

We highly recommend this important reading by Dr. Stuart Shanker
York University:  http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/childcare/selfRegulate.html