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Captain Spark

Your child wakes up with a power: every jump lights up the city. Then a blackout stops the trains and a kitten is stuck on a roof. A cape, a lightning-bolt emblem and the right moment.

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Helps with

Big feelings

Big feelings and self-control: holding on to a big burst of energy and using it at the right moment.

The tool your child practises in the story

Tick, tock... now!

Stand still and put one hand flat where the badge would be. Breathe in slowly while saying "tick", breathe out slowly while saying "tock". Do it three times: the feeling is still there, but now it is held, not spilling over. Then ask: "Is it the right moment?" If yes, "Now!" and go. If not, another tick, tock. Practise it at calm times (before a race in the garden, before blowing out candles) so it is ready when feelings are big.

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For grown-ups

What this story is about

Young children feel things in big bursts: excitement, frustration, the itch to do it NOW. In this story, your child wakes up with a power that lights up the whole city, and uses it all day, just for fun. When a blackout strands a train and a kitten, the spark has fizzled out, and hopping faster and harder only makes it smaller. What works is the clock keeper's trick: stand still, breathe in on "tick", out on "tock", and wait for the right moment. The story shows that holding a big feeling for a moment is not losing it: it is how it grows strong enough to help.

Three ways to talk about it

  • Play "Tick, tock... now!" as a game: your child crouches, breathes in on tick and out on tock, and jumps only when you say now. Make the waiting a little longer each time.
  • When excitement or frustration spills over, name it first ("You're full of fizz right now"), then do the tick, tock together, instead of saying "calm down".
  • Notice the waiting itself: "You held your spark until it was your turn. That was hard, and you did it."

Three questions to ask

  • Why was nobody pleased when the lamps came on in the middle of the day?
  • What happened when Captain Spark hopped faster and harder in the dark? What worked instead?
  • When is it hard for you to wait? What could your "tick, tock" be?

Practise the tool together: Tick, tock... now!

Stand still and put one hand flat where the badge would be. Breathe in slowly while saying "tick", breathe out slowly while saying "tock". Do it three times: the feeling is still there, but now it is held, not spilling over. Then ask: "Is it the right moment?" If yes, "Now!" and go. If not, another tick, tock. Practise it at calm times (before a race in the garden, before blowing out candles) so it is ready when feelings are big.

If your child's bursts of excitement, anger or frustration are very frequent or very intense, last a long time, or keep getting in the way of play, nursery or school, it is worth talking to your paediatrician or a child psychologist.

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