Tips for navigating your child’s heightened emotions, overstimulation, and behaviors during the holiday season

Do you ever feel stressed during holidays? Birthdays? Random gatherings throughout the year?   Now imagine your child, who has less life experience, less understanding of what's going on and why, and less prefrontal cortex (judgement, problem solving, reasoning) development trying to navigate the hustle and bustle of the season.   Of course it is fun and exciting, but overwhelm and over-stimulation can also easily occur. This throws your child into a state of dys-regulation and increases the behaviors you are seeing. Often this makes it more challenging to stay calm, especially when your stress is already also heightened, and you likely respond in a way you wouldn't necessarily prefer. This feeds into the mom guilt.   Let's stop that cycle from repeating over and over again! Today, I want to bring your awareness to simple, yet super effective ways you can help your child (and you) participate in all the holiday things without all the holiday drama!   Special Time ebook & Tame Your Triggers Audio have both been upgraded to MELTDOWN MANAGEMENT Mini Training! Get it here → https://view.flodesk.com/pages/64406aa91df9ae473e5a55e3    Episode on the Spoiled Outing: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/chaos-to-connected-behavior-management-parent-coach/id1609008872?i=1000588515996   Connect with me here: https://www.instagram.com/kailijozeiher/   If you are struggling to find strategies that help correct the challenging behaviors you are walking through and are ready to establish a Behavior Blueprint with a step by step plan of exactly what to do, then DM me over on IG or send me an email at [email protected] and let's connect!   XO Kaili