Puppet Play: How to Help Your Child Self-Regulate their Emotions and Behaviors

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Journal writing can help release emotion, stress, anxiety, and work through traumatic experiences. Children also have fears, big emotions, anxiety, and stress, but often find it difficult to express themselves. Puppet play can help kids learn to self-regulate their emotions, express what they are feeling, and work towards solutions for behavioral outbursts.

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Puppet play can help children express themselves, stimulate imagination, encourage creative play and discovery, and support speech and language, social-emotional, cognitive and physical development.

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Puppet play can increase a child's communication and social skills by providing structured opportunities to interact with puppets and other children.

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