Emotional Regulation – Setting Your Child Up For a Happy Healthy Adulthood

How do we teach our children to handle sadness and hurt? Is it by dismissing those feelings and trying to make them feel happy. Dr. Becky Kennedy says it’s not a parent’s job is not to make our kids happy. When we focus on making our kids happy we start to make them fearful and less tolerant of all the other emotions that will inevitably be part of their life.

We need to help children be resilient over happy. To teach them to tolerate and sit with the emotions and work through them. Emotional regulation will support them in being happier healthier kids and eventually adults.

You can learn more from Dr. Becky on youtube, search Dr. Becky Kennedy School of Greatness

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