How to Use I Love You Rituals in Shubert’s Classroom

Dr. Bailey designed I Love You Rituals as a playful means to promote optimal brain development, increase attention span, reduce hyperactivity, build self-esteem, amplify cooperation and facilitate language development. These transformative rituals can be enjoyed in an adult-child setting or between children, and are appropriate from 15 months through elementary school.

I Love You Rituals are structured connecting activities that include eye contact, touch, presence and playfulness. Families benefit from I Love You Rituals at bedtime, morning routine, before or after meals, when saying goodbye, while on the diapering table, and more. Classrooms benefit from I Love You Rituals in routines like the Brain Smart Start, during circle time and after transitions. Teachers and individual students benefit from scheduling regular one-on-one I Love You Rituals with children call for help through difficult behaviors like aggression, tantrums or withdrawal.

I Love You Rituals are helpful for all children, but are particularly essential to fostering healthy connection and development when enjoyed with children with challenging behaviors, who are at-risk or who experience special needs.

Some of our top I Love You Rituals are featured on the I Love You Rituals Poster Set and the I Love You Rituals on a String. Music that supports the I Love You Rituals can be found on the Songs for I Love You Rituals CDs, Volume 1 and Volume 2.