What Travelled Home
Parents reported small, specific changes: talking about feelings, showing kindness, using calm when angry, and correcting siblings. The tools that stayed were practical, not slogans — box breathing, a stress ball, CPR, conversations about emotions, and play.
Ndidi Akwah’s 14-year-old attended all four sessions. The first change she marked was confidence. The proof was daily: “When he gets angry he uses box breathing and his stress ball.” Uche Mba’s children, aged 9 and 11, put it in their own words: “We learnt the box breathing.” Their parent also saw eagerness to reproduce skills they were taught, and more kindness at home.
That is usable self-regulation. GlowPulse did not only teach children to name emotions. It gave them something to do with the emotion before it ran the room.
Play wasn't a break. It was the method
All families that responded to our post bootcamp survey selected emotions and self-awareness, and games, sports and art, among the things children talked about most. Parents asked GlowPulse to keep Play Therapy and the use of different locations.
On 18 August at De Angelo Event Centre, children moved through chess, Ludo, painting, sewing, clay modelling, Jenga, tug of war, soccer, egg race, sack race and more — so play could carry the teaching rather than interrupt it.
A useful public line from the parent forms: children remembered how to breathe, how to play, and how to talk about what they felt.