When nurturing your child's emotional world, you聽help build聽the connective fibers that make the reactive centers of their brain more readily and easily calm down.聽Over time, these repeated emotional responsive interactions聽change your child's聽brain in a way that allows them to have better behavior and emotional regulation.
Whether positive, negative, or reactive, you must聽observe when your聽child is experiencing an emotion and validate it. Learn more from Dr. Tina Payne Bryson,聽co-author (with Dan Siegel, M.D.) of two聽New York Times bestsellers: The Whole-Brain Child and No-Drama Discipline.
Tina Payne Bryson, Ph.D.,聽is the Executive Director of the Center for Connection in Pasadena, CA and a pediatric and adolescent psychotherapist. Dr. Bryson serves as the Child Development Expert at St. Mark鈥檚 School in Altadena, CA. Dr. Bryson travels internationally, lecturing to educators, mental health professionals, and parents.
You can learn more about Dr. Bryson at聽, and subscribe to her blog to read her articles about kids and parenting.