Toolbox

The toolbox is the chest of tools the wagon carries for the trail. The child's toolbox holds everything they reach for under stress. Some of those tools work and the child should keep them. Some are old workarounds that hurt the child now. Pieces in this part address the inventory of a child's coping, the practice of teaching new tools without forbidding the old ones, the recognition that a maladaptive coping strategy was once a survival skill, and the slow swap of one tool for another. They include co-regulation tools, sensory tools, language tools, and the work of helping a child notice which tool they just reached for. Forms that fit this part include `STRATEGY_PRACTICE`, `TOOLKIT`, `HELP_TONIGHT`, and `REFRESHER`. The journey vocabulary includes: the right tool for the moment, the swap, the new skill in hand.