Love and Logic is offering a free training for parents. Love and Logic can help prepare you for any everyday conflict that can occur in your house. Using these skills that are taught to you during the trainings can help you build stronger relationships with kids!
It's difficult to help a child co-regulate when we feel anxious ourselves! It's important to remember:
Our calm increases children's calm.
You are the most important Safe Place for your child.
The brain requires safety and connection. Be intentional about cultivating both.
Create a "new normal” together using routines and play.
Provide helpful ways for children to contribute every day.
Consciously choose to see the best in others and circumstances.
You'll find some more specific structures and tools in this article: COVID-19: Five Helpful Responses for Families. You'll also find links to other relevant, free resources like Shubert's Home, webinars, podcasts, printables and more.
Connection with one another increases our ability to control impulses, motivation, and attention toward our current tasks. Conscious discipline is a way to rewire our brains away from the traditional ways of how we think about connection. We connect through movement, sound, touch, eye contact and more. Dr. Becky Bailey has multiple videos available online to help us reshape our behavior through connection.