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To help your child become a thinking child, it is useful to help him or her step
out of the negative emotions and be thoughtful about the sequence of events
that occurred. Many parents say things like “I’ve told him a thousand times
that when he falls apart, he needs to go to his bedroom and calm down, but
he never listens. If I pick him up and put him there, he screams even more”.
The problem is that once the child reaches a distressed state, he may
completely shut off his thinking brain and cannot follow the strategy that his
parents are trying to teach him.
This is why it’s important to break the strategy down into steps so that the
child learns a successful approximation of what may work.
For instance, instead of expecting the child to go directly to the bedroom, the
parent may guide the child to go to a corner of the room and hug his body
tightly while humming a calm-down song.
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