Example; sensory motor play for emotion sharing! Shared by April Roga. youtube/watch?v=uxJ4fARpqYs April, this is a good example of a sensory motor play pattern that you use to establish “emotion sharing”. Simply speaking, using the child’s sensory preferences, built into a simple repetitive pattern, to invite emotional engagement. A regulatory pattern needs to have a clear beginning and ending so the child feels when it starts and stops. These patterns also often include a predictable sequence (e.g. counting) that builds up to a moment of climax (e.g. tickle)! This way the pattern becomes predictable for the child (feels safe with it), and leads to anticipation of the climax (excitement-tickle). The excitement builds as the sequence moves toward the climax. For someone with no training you do so really nice things here: 1. You are positioned well, face to face at eye level, to invite and encourage facial gazing. Your child does well with referencing your face during this activity (both to share pleasure moments, and for information). 2. You use both animated facial expressions and excited voice to invite facial gazing. Using strong nonverbal communication. 3. You worked slow enough, at a consistent rhythm, to allow your child to feel the rhythm and process it without getting overwhelmed. Many parents move to fast to keep them entertained. The child then often doesn’t sense the pattern. 4. You naturally pause just before the climax (tickle) to build the anticipation, which draws him to reference your emotional expression to share the pleasure. This moment of anticipation helps encode the episodic memory of the emotion sharing (which motivates him to want more!). This “moment of anticipation” is very important and should be emphasized at all times. 5. I love the way he reaches out to bring your hands back to his legs to communicate “again” or “more”. This is very important. It gives him a role to play in the pattern, allows him a sense of control, and provides communicative intent. Very nice. 6. It is interesting that he can handle a long, build up sequence from 1-5. Many children his age cannot initially handle that long. For others, I usually start with 1-3, or two or three “I am going to get you”, or “ready, set, …..get you!” and gradually lengthen the sequence. However, your son handles that well. 7. If I could make one recommendation for you it would be to try lessening the clapping after you tickle! It looks like it may be too much “excitement” that it overwhelms him, making him become over active and losing connection and pulling away to rebound. Tickling, in and of it self can be overwhelming for many children. Although you give a very brief and light tickle, which he seems to do well with. Usually we recommend not following the climax (tickle) with loud clapping because the child usually becomes too excited and pulls away from the contact. Really what you would like is for the child to immediately reference you to share the pleasurable moment; right after the tickle. Just like he does when anticipating the tickle. This is animportant split second following the climax. I would recommend providing the brief tickle, then moving in with your face and softly laughing together, inviting your child to reference your face to share the moment. You want to follow the climax (tickle) with a calmer, but still loving facial expression. This allows the child to reference you, share the moment, and rebound from the excitement . 8. I love how you do not force the child back to interacting, but stay with the child to invite. I also enjoy the end when you interrupted his bouncing around by bringing your forehead right into his to invite the kissing and affection! Very good engagement April! Nice and natural, but very effective!! This motivates him to want more emotion sharing with you! Nice job! Thanks for sharing!
Posted on: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 09:58:04 +0000
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