Why Is My Child Behaving This Way?
Power struggles ... meltdowns ... defiance. Here's what's causing your child's behavior and tools for transforming it.
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Getting Your Child To Listen Without Commands And Demands
Want your child to listen without having to nag, command or demand? Follow these 5 tips.
Practicing Transitions To Reduce Meltdowns
Children are concrete learners and often thrive off of predictability, so it can be hard for them to pivot, especially when the request is to move from a preferred activity to a less preferred task. Here are 5 tools to help children with transitions.
Teaching Your Child How To Be Mad
It’s not about teaching our children not to be mad, sad, or frustrated. It’s about teaching them how to be mad, sad, and frustrated. Rather than teaching them to suppress or bottle their emotions, we can empower our children to move through them in healthy ways. Here's how.
Speaking Your Child's Meltdown Language
Understand the biology of a meltdown and how to speak your child's unique meltdown language.
Mom Of Autistic Son Thanks Man For His Kindness During Her Son's Meltdown
In the midst of a meltdown, five-year-old Rudy and his mother Natalie Fernando were met with kindness from a stranger. The man's shocking actions helped regulate her child. Fernando shares: When you see a parent and child struggling, offer compassion, not judgment. And that's exactly what Ian Shelley did.
Using A Feelings Chart To Teach Emotions
If you feel like you are learning about emotional regulation right alongside your child, it’s because, very likely, you are. Here's how to use a feelings chart to teach your kids (and yourself) about emotions and calming strategies to decrease tantrums and nurture emotional intelligence.
8 Ways To De-escalate Meltdowns With Your Child
Teens and toddlers alike can demonstrate aggressive or uncooperative behaviors from time to time as influenced by big emotions and neurological overwhelm. De-escalation tools help parents defuse a situation and help their child calm and regulate their system.
