Connection-Based Discipline - Creative Child
Rebecca Eanes outlines three easy (!) steps in using your upstairs brain to try to get your child to access his or her upstairs brain, when he's flooded with emotion.
When your child is overwhelmed s/he is operating from the downstairs brain, or lizard brain. Literally the options are fight, flight or freeze. Not a lot of problem-solving going on. To get to the solutions, the child has to come up into his upstairs brain. The more often she does this the easier it becomes to do.
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