Yesterday my daughters and I were watching Bluey and the episode “Musical Statues.”
Firstly, I love Bluey SO much. It’s wildly funny, really endearing and touching, and the episodes are the perfect length.
But here’s what I love about Bluey. It’s not preachy at all, but it is full of parenting gold nuggets for us to enjoy.
In Musical Statues everyone is grumpy. Bingo wants it to be the weekend and Bluey can’t decide what she wants to eat. Everyone is whiney and whingy – and we all know how much fun that is!
And what Bluey’s mum does is use the “Move it to Lose it" Principle – she gets them all up and dancing and, sure enough, the grumpiness and dysregulation disappears, and everyone feels better.
Move it to Lose it is a powerful technique to intervene early when you notice some dysregulation going on, whether that be sadness, anger, frustration, anxiety, boredom and so on!
The other day, I channelled my inner Bluey’s mum and did this:
“Girls, give me 10 jumps reaching as high as you can.”
“Give me 5 jumps reaching as wide as you can.”
“3 spins around.”
“Sing a song REALLY loud that you love to sing.”
Added bonus: singing calms the nervous system down due to the longer exhalations!
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