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Use this Parenting Advice in All Relationships—BIG TALK with Dr. Becky

Dear Gabby

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How to Prevent Your Child's Emotions

"This is your decision, and kind of prepare for your child's emotions," she says. "There's nothing as disregulating to a child as not being sure that the pilot of the plane knows what they're doing." If you go back to the feelings and how scary they feel, a child then says, 'No, not to day.' And so when we change because they're protesting again, they think, o those feelings in me that feel overwhelming actually are as bad as i thought. No wonder the disregulaion gets even higher'

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