PRODUCT DESCRIPTION

What if "Stop crying" turned into "I'm listening" for an entire generation?

This question inspired the creation of our The Time-In ToolKit, a step-by-step guide for nurturing social and emotional skills in children through mindfulness, child-led play, and positive discipline.

The Time-In ToolKit gives you everything you need to create a calming space for children ages 3 to 9+ for use in homes, classrooms, daycare centers, therapy settings and more.

One kit is all you'll need per home or classroom and the many play-based activities in the ToolKit easily adapt to diverse settings and neurological abilities.

WHAT'S INCLUDED

PeaceMakers Mindfulness Card Game: 42 cards plus instructions
35 Resealable Animal Stickers
Meet the PeaceMakers Poster (works with the stickers): 20" x 30”
My Calming Strategies Poster: 20" x 30"
32 Feeling Faces Poster: 12" x 16"
PeaceMakers Feel Many Emotions Poster: 12" x 16"
My Calming Corner Poster: 8" x 10"
Calming Steps Poster: 8” x 10”
My Feelings Card Set including the "What Can I Do?" Activity Mat
8-page full color printed mini-manual
50+ page Digital Manual
32 sticky tabs to hang the posters if you decide not to frame them

Digital Components

(Emailed when your order ships)

Creating A Calming Corner & Using Time-Ins: 36 pages of instructions (PDF)
Bonus Printables (PDF): This 34 page set of printables comes at the end of your Digital Manual to help you make Time-In's more engaging in your home, school and/or therapy practice. Because these sheets are PDF's, they can be used with multiple children at no extra cost to you.

*Please accept emails when asked at checkout to ensure you receive the digital components of the kit and updates.

HOW DOES IT WORK?

Goodbye time-outs, power struggles, and clip charts. Using the Time-In ToolKit approach, we can meet children where they are, socially and emotionally, teaching them with clear and consistent boundaries, free from shame, blame, and pain.

STEP ONE: SET UP A SAFE, CALMING SPACE

Your Time-In ToolKit Manual will guide you every step of the way as you set up a cozy, inviting space your child will want to visit. The posters and manual that come with your kit will also help you establish your personal Calming Corner guidelines, whether for a home, classroom or other setting.

The Time-In ToolKit comes with a beautifully illustrated 8-page mini-manual in every box and a more detailed Digital Manual to inspire social-emotional learning, connection and fun for years to come.

STEP TWO: TEACH CHILDREN HOW TO NAME EMOTIONS

The first step to emotional regulation is awareness.

The playful activities included in the ToolKit make thinking, talking and learning about emotions fun. With practice, children as young as age two and three begin to recognize the four different mood-groups we all feel in the average day.

Children will intrinsically want to visit their Calming Corner when they can notice and name their emotions.

The following poster (one of six in the kit) teaches kids that even their PeaceMakers animal friends, featured throughout the ToolKit, feel all four types of emotions: anger/fear (red), sadness (blue), calm (green), and happy (yellow).

Time In ToolKit Poster

This poster compliments the four emojis and the My Feelings Journal that come with every SnuggleBuddies perfectly!!! If your child is age 2+, we highly recommend pairing your Time-In ToolKit with a SnuggleBuddies plush of THEIR choice.

Picking out the animal is another step towards nurturing intrinsic motivation of the child and is sure to reinforce the success of your new Time-In space being a joyful, empowering experience.

STEP THREE: CONNECT/REGULATE

After helping your child identify and express their emotions, the Time-In ToolKit includes a list of calming strategies to help children practice managing those big emotions as well.

The behaviors we are looking for from children are easier for them to do when they are feeling safe and connected to another human being. Connection builds compliance which is why our tools help adults and children "connect before they correct".

When you begin to use your Calming Corner on a regular basis, there will no longer be a need to put children in forced time-outs. Children (and adults!) having challenging behaviors and/or feelings will take a Time-In instead.

The Time-In ToolKit will help you create is an inviting "get-to" place kids go to feel, think, share and learn. Time-Ins are empowering, something children are proud of taking as opposed to a punishment.

WHY TIME-INS?

All children deserve to feel powerful, safe, and connected.

Time-outs are punitive experiences that isolate a child from an environment for a set amount of time. Though punishment based discipline may lead to short-term compliance, they do not enhance moral behavior or teach children useful conflict-resolution skills (Hoffman).

Alternatively, Time-Ins help children learn to calm their bodies and process their emotions so that they can problem-solve, learn, and grow. They empower children to check in with their bodies when they are feeling strong emotions so that they can practice responding to situations rather than reacting.

GIVING BACK

We have proudly donated over $50,000 worth of Generation Mindful materials to schools and families in need. Thank you for making our give-back program possible with your purchase.

SnuggleBuddies #1 (Reward)

SnuggleBuddies #2 (Reward)

PeaceMakers (Reward)

x2 SnuggleBuddies Feelings Poster Journals (Reward)

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My Feelings Card Set (REWARD ADD-ON)

SnuggleBuddies (REWARD ADD-ON)

Feelings Bingo Ages 3 to 6 (REWARD ADD-ON)

PeaceMakers (REWARD ADD-ON)

Extra Set 35 Resealable Stickers (REWARD ADD-ON)

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