teaching children that they are allowed to walk away and cool off if they are feeling overwhelmed might literally save their life as teens/adults
I am a preschool teacher.
This is my “alone zone.”
At any time of the day, if my kids are feeling stressed, they can go here to cool down. There’s stress toys, silly putty, bubbles, sensory bottles…there’s books and headphones to block out the loud noises.
The only thing they have to do is “check in” by putting their picture on which emotion they’re feeling so I know how I can help them when they’re ready.
Kids. Need. Space.
Kids. Need. Coping. Mechanisms.
Not. Time-outs.
And the sooner we as adults teach them that, the better off they’ll be as they grow.
I think whichever statistician came up with these figures was a lying son of a gun because the roundabouts in Carmel aren’t even round, they’re weird, overlapping, complicated peanut figures that neither Siri nor other drivers understand at all and the one near the hospital remains the only time I’ve ever actually witnessed an accident happen.
If accidents happen less it’s because people are avoiding going to Carmel because it’s a dreadful place.
Let me be clear: I don’t hate roundabouts. There are many roundabouts that are functional. Navigating Carmel, Indiana, however, looks like this every few blocks:
Ignisfilimundi 