Parenting can be SO FRUSTRATING. Big emotions such as anxiety and anger in our children can create difficult moments that frustrate the child and the parent.
In this episode,
Learn the 3 R’s on how to diffuse those big moments where emotions are high!!
Regulate | Relate | Reason
Nicole Hall provides advice and tips to teach parents and KIDS coping skills to regulate in those moments.
Nicole has spent the last 12 years working in the mental health/trauma informed education field for Lakeside. For the last 40 years Lakeside has supported thousands of youth through their trauma informed, brain friendly, therapeutic school environments. Lakeside also trains professionals across the country and world in the brain-friendly, trauma-informed approaches they use. Her passion is finding ways to help adults better understand and relate to the kids in their lives. Nicole is a mom to two wonderful, spunky, enlightening kids (11 and 7).
Check out Lakeside - Trauma Training and Therapeutic Schools
Follow on Instagram Nicole's recommended parenting accounts: @unconditional_parenting
@flourishinghomesandfamilies
@traumainformedparent
2:23 Meet Nicole Hall
6:54 Connect with kids when you don't like them
9:20 Post Pandemic World: The need and importance to be there for children and their mental health
11:00 Distinguish between anxiety, anger, and worry
14:50 Buzzword: Anxiety
19:27 How can the parent help their child when they are anxious or anger?
22:21 Where do we feel anxiety?
24:33 "You are safe and I am here."
24:53 Mirror Neurons
28:38 Parent Tool: Regulate, Relate, Reason
31:09 Actions to trick the brain to flip the switch out of the anxious or anger emotion
39:47 Get your kids involved!
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