Discover essential strategies for parenting children struggling with chronic dysregulation. Key topics include the importance of meeting basic needs like food and movement, establishing structure and predictability, and the necessity of parental presence. The discussion emphasizes the link between a parent’s self-care and their ability to nurture their child effectively. Gain practical tips to create a supportive environment that encourages emotional regulation for both parents and children.
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Self-Regulation and Compassion
Notice your own dysregulation when living with a dysregulated child.
Offer yourself compassion for your reactions, as it's normal to feel overwhelmed.
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Prioritize Regulation
Prioritize calming your child's arousal over immediately addressing their behavior.
Focus on regulation and felt safety to decrease difficult behaviors.
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Food, Drink, and Movement
Offer drinks, snacks, and movement to help regulate a dysregulated child.
These are not rewards, but tools to reduce arousal.
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Connection. Empathizing. Offering choices. These parenting ideas sound good in theory but if you are living with a child who seems chronically angry or won’t get out of bed or is otherwise pretty much always unhappy or dysregulated- none of those parenting suggestions seem to do much good. So…what should you do instead???
This episode takes you through the three places I always recommend parents start first when they are trying to support their child who feels chronically dysregulated. 1. Food, water, and movement 2. Structure, routing, and predictability 3. Stick close
These may or may not help your child to decrease their level of arousal and dysregulation but they are always where I recommend parents start first!
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