How to respond to your child when they are in distress.

Our relationship with our child is our most powerful “tool” in helping our children through their distress. When we take a moment to connect first, before correcting or directing their behaviour, we immediately begin the process of helping our kids manage their emotions more effectively and therefore help to ease their distress.

6 Strategies to Help Our Kids Calm & Soothe

We can change what is happening in our brains—(shifting the activity from the reaction center to the thinking center)—by changing what is happening in our bodies.

Warm, loving connections help to calm and soothe intense emotions.