Co-Regulate to Help Your Child Self-Regulate

Ryan and Heidi discuss the importance of us as parents being able to use the tools of co-regulation and objective noticing to teach self-regulation to our children. We all what our children to have a competitive edge in life- to be emotionally intelligent, resilient, and confident about taking on any challenge in lifeIn the US culture, we have noticed how many men are raised to suppress their emotions as they are growing upDownplaying our children's physical sensations that are leading to big emotions teaches our kids to question, ignore, and mistrust their own internal experience Diminishing the signal of pain teaches our children that they are bad or wrong for feelingThe goal is to allow ourselves to feel fully in one moment and to let go in the nextThe old model vs. the new model of parenting a child through their own discomfortWhat is co-regulation? Co-regulation involves one person staying present for another through a challenging experience such that the stressed individual experiences greater self-awarenessHow to practice the 3 A's: Attention, Acceptance, AllowanceUsing objective noticing to help our children identify the sensations they are experiencing without the "thought story they may want to attach to the experience 📲 QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS: SEND US A TEXT OR VOICE MESSAGEWebsite: CompeteHeartFirst.comFollow Us on SocialInstagram @HeartFirstLeadershipFacebook @HeartFirstLeadershipYoutube Chanel @HeartFirstLeadership