Deb Hopper's Just Right Kids Model of Self Regulation is a great visual to teach kids how to describe how they are feeling. Unlike other visuals, Deb divides the concepts of how "busy" our body is vs our emotions, which is easier and more specific for kids to tell you how they feel.

It includes the colours that correlate to other self regulation programs, so it can be overlapped with other learning that may have already been completed. Teach your child or the children you work with how they are feeling and once these building blocks are achieved, move onto strategies for how they can change their behaviour and emotions.

A great tool for the fridge at home for parents and every therapists toolbox!

Are you looking for a way to help children reduce meltdowns?

Focus better in school?

Better understand their feelings, emotions and self-regulation?

If you are searching for the answer to these questions, you have found them in this book!

Author and Occupational Therapist Deb Hopper has helped hundreds of parents, families and classrooms to reduce meltdowns and tantrums, improve concentration and become happier places, through her simple, powerful and effective Just Right Kids Technique.

This book explains how the Just Right Kids Technique can help you to teach your child to understand, recognise and learn to control their emotions and behaviour.

A variety of topics are covered including:

• How can I make 'getting out the door easier' on bad days?
• What can I do to reduce tantrums and meltdowns?
• How can I help my child to be able to sit in class, listen and learn?
• How can I reduce meltdowns and tantrums and increase concentration quickly and easily at home?
• What does sensory processing, self-regulation, "body speed", emotional control and behavior management have to do with this?
• Extension ideas for using this technique at the shops, school, out and about and at home.

Designed to fit into busy schedules, the concepts in the technique are easy to understand and the strategies can be implemented straight away. Through this fun, play-based approach to learning children will gain valuable life skills that will help them to feel ‘just right’ more of the time.

When kids are ‘just right’ they feel happy, safe and emotionally secure – resulting in less tantrums and improved concentration. The Just Right Kids Technique will show you how to achieve this at home and in school, and help kids to grow into happy adults.

Grab a copy of this book today and make parenting a little easier and have strategies that you can use today to help decrease meltdowns and tantrums and improve concentration.

Watching the fireworks can be the highlight of the holiday season but for many children, it is a terrifying experience. It can cause family stress and reduce the enjoyment of making memories at special events. Fireworks Freak-Out: How Eddy and Monica Chill-Out tells the story of two children who struggle to cope with the noise and visual aspects of the fireworks. Woven through the story are strategies that help kids and parents turn an overwhelming event into a fun and memorable one. A summary page helps adults to understand how kids feel when they are overwhelmed and offers practical advice and strategies for a positive, stress-free experience.

Watching the fireworks can be the highlight of the holiday season but for many children, it is a terrifying experience. It can cause family stress and reduce the enjoyment of making memories at special events.

Fireworks Freak-Out: How Eddy and Monica Chill-Out* tells the story of two children who struggle to cope with the noise and visual aspects of the fireworks. Woven through the story are strategies that help kids and parents turn an overwhelming event into a fun and memorable one. A summary page helps adults to understand how kids feel when they are overwhelmed and offers practical advice and strategies for a positive, stress-free experience.

Kids today are growing up in a fast-paced world where information and opportunity overload can be overwhelming.

Based on many years of clinical experience as an Occupational Therapist, Deb Hopper has been using her Just Right Kids® Model to teach children to communicate and manage their stress and anxiety by:

• Identifying their “body speed”,
• Understanding their stress triggers, and
• Implementing simple strategies to reduce anxiety and stress.

"This is quite simply the best, most comprehensive and practical bookI have ever read to help teach children - and many grownups - how to manage anxiety. It is written in an easy to read way with lots of fabulous graphics. This brilliant book needs to be in every home, every school and every library." — Parenting author and educator Maggie Dent

Explore

• How the body reacts to anxiety and impacts on our ability to think and get an action plan together
• How to teach your children to identify when their body and mind is anxious, and how to tell you
• Sensory overload and how this can push children into being anxious
• Strategies to reduce screen time that you can start today (because this will help reduce anxiety in your house and make life more peaceful

The 5 different types of anxiety kids may feel from day to day and how to help

1. Learning anxiety
2. Sensory induced anxiety
3. Social anxiety
4. Emotional anxiety
5. Transitional anxiety

- Supercharge your parenting tool box so you are empowered to help your anxious child, and make you both smile with our SMILERS

S - Speak positively

M - Move dynamically

I - Immerse in a physically uplifting environment

L - Look to the positive

E - Eat nutritiously

R - Rest to Destress

S - Serve

Grab a hold of strategies that support the body and decreases the emotional reaction of anxiety through

1. Physical/ body strategies
2. Cognitive/ thinking strategies
3. Understanding the power of planning in decreasing anxiety in children. 

"Through this wonderful book I was able to recognise that often as a parent we try to rescue our children from their stress and anxiety, when we should actually take the opportunity to create teachable moments of how to self regulate." Peta C, Mum, Disabilities and Mental Health Worker.

"Deb Hopper brings some wonderful practical strategies, drawing on her many clinical years of experience as an OT, to help anxious children. The Just Right Kids® Model contextualises where kids function best. A great read for all parents seeking practical help for their anxious child." Dr Andrew Pennington Integrative GP BSc(hons); BMed; DRANZCOG Adv; FRACGP; FARGP

"If you are a teacher, children's counsellor or parent, then this is a must read. Deb very helpfully and clearly identifies many causes of stress and anxiety for kids. But more than that, she carefully outlines different techniques and strategies to help kids lead more regulated lives." Peter F, Counsellor, Parent and Foster Parent.

Alex loves school. He enjoys all the activities he does during the term such as swimming and soccer. He also loves holidays and all the fun things he gets to do while he’s not at school. The problem is, Alex doesn’t like changes. His tummy gets all tight and he gets a worry cloud that comes over his brain and makes it feel foggy. When the school term ends and holidays begin or when school is about to start again, Alex feels really worried and anxious.

Alex’s Mum doesn’t want him to worry. So she does some reading and finds a really cool trick that helps Alex to feel comfortable with changes. It works! Alex is able to keep his worries under control and think about all the fun things that are coming up instead. Can you guess what Alex’s special trick is.

Alex Learns that Changes Are Okay is a beautiful book for children who find change difficult.

When you purchase the Alex Learns that Changes are OK (Flipbook), you will receive a digital flipbook that gradually changes from one page to the next while listening to high-quality audio narration as if someone is flipping and reading the book for you!

Another book from the So-Sense: Stories that make so much Sensory-sense series by Occupational Therapist Deb Hopper.

About Deb Hopper

A practicing Occupational Therapist from the Mid North Coast, Australia, Deb Hopper brings over 21 years experience working with children and adults who struggle with autism, anxiety, emotional regulation and sensory processing difficulties. Deb empowers parents and teachers to understand emotional regulation and provides practical strategies that help children to participate more fully in daily life.

Deb works in her private practice, enjoys supervision of Occupational Therapists, is a casual academic lecturer in Occupational Therapy, and loves to create resources, online courses and books for adults and children. Her passion has been recognised by multiple commendations and wins in the Great Lakes and Mid North Coast Business Awards.