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Why "Calm Down!" Doesn't Work

Connected Families Podcast

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Why Kids Don't Want to Calm Down?

We heard jim and lyn on a podcast talking about a conflict with their children. We identified immediately with the way that they described their children, sensitive and intense. And our conflicts were just extremely volatile. So we noticed it doesn't seem like our kids want to do these things in the moment. During our coaching with lyn, she asked us, i wonder if they're not as motivated to want to calm down. You know, these things that you're practising, they're not wanting to do it. That's far more helpful starting point than just trying to shut down the outburst. Yeso, let's stick with the child right now. I want to ask the question, what

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