Attachment Building Stategies - Refrigerator List

Attachment Building Stategies - Refrigerator List

1.  Accurate Reflection or mirroring.

2. Validate.

3. Empathize.

4. Be Curious.

5. Name It To Tame It.

6. Soothe the Downstairs Brain.

7. Engage the Upstairs Brain.

8. Joy and delight are the doors.  Have fun.  Hang out.  Get into your child’s world.  Pleasurable engagement.

9. Use sensory pathways—i.e. art, music, movement, textures.

10. Dr. Dan Siegel’s parenting list

11. Track your own inner state, settle yourself.  Breathe.

12. Conscious Play—child takes the lead, you follow.

13. Protection Games

14. Creative Opposition