When a parent is dealing with a kid's big emotion (tantrum, meltdown, withdrawal, sibling conflict, school resistance), apply Siegel & Bryson's integration framework: connect-before-redirect (regulate first via right-brain emotion-attunement, then engage left-brain reasoning); "name it to tame it" (
When a parent is dealing with a kid's big emotion (tantrum, meltdown, withdrawal, sibling conflict, school resistance), apply Siegel & Bryson's integration framework: connect-before-redirect (regulate first via right-brain emotion-attunement, then engage left-brain reasoning); "name it to tame it" (affect labeling reduces amygdala activation, Lieberman UCLA fMRI work); upstairs- downstairs brain (