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How to Raise Kids Who Are Critical Thinkers and Effective Problem Solvers with Dr. Steve Pearlman

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How to Break an Amygdala Host

The problem is that the amygdala doesn't understand the difference between a physical threat to our survival and a stressor like doing poorly at soccer. so there's less blood going to the thinking brain all kinds of things are happening. What your son did was one of the great ways to break an amygdala hijack went over there put a different thought into the head had it on the back you said which and fist-bumped him right. It models a different physicality and modeling a more positive physicality getting the kid to do something physical that's positive changes the brain and starts to switch it back out of the hijack.

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