Co-regulation and Kindness

"Co-regulation is at the heart of empathy. It not only calms and supports children, but it also models kindness. Kids and teens have the opportunity to see kindness and empathy in action on a regular basis." 

In this post we explore the importance of kindness and how it can be practiced through co-regulation.

There’s no such thing as one small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end therfore the statt of that kindness chain reaction can not be identified. 

Kindness is a skill that takes many years to develop adopt master and refine. Consideration, respect and generosity are among the foundation of skills required to become a kind person. Kids and teens do not simply ‘learn’ kindness, they experience it, turning into a lived experience that they the inherit and pass on as part of tge chain reaction.

Studies show, that kind and considerate children are develop faster where kindness and consideration are practised proving that kindness develops best when we are purposeful about building it, and environments that harbour and harness kindness are the most effective in building kind children growing into well regulated compassionate teens with unshakable confidence and a strong sense of self wort, self love and self esteem. 

Kindness raises wellbeing both for ourselvesand others, studies have discovered how being kind can also increase our own feelings of happiness and life satisfaction because serotonin and dopamine levels rise as we display kindness, improving mood and decreasing stress. In short, being kind boosts our own wellbeing!

Kindness cannot grow where stress panic anxity fear anger or dysregulation lives. In order for kids and teens to become masters of self-regulation and confidence, adults must support children’s potentially turbulent early years through steady, loving support, by doing this children can learn to understand their own feelings, calm themselves after an emotional episode and find strategies to help them in the future leading to resilient calm self soothing teens ready to face the world with Co-regulation skills.

Co-regulation is at the heart of empathy. It not only calms and supports younng minds, but it also models kindness. Children have the opportunity to see kindness and empathy in action on a regular basis. This builds a slow but sure understanding of the experience of kindness enabling them to adopt and pass it on.