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If your child has overstepped boundaries in your home, it’ s important to talk with them about it once they’ ve returned to calm. First, normalize their emotions. There shouldn’ t be punishment for thoughts or feelings; our role is to guide them toward appropriate behaviors. This may involve having a conversation with them about how we behave in our home or asking them to clean up the mess they made during their meltdown. This isn’ t about shaming them for their behavior but about guiding them toward more appropriate behaviors in the future.
Repairing our relationship allows us to begin again.
Adapted from Turn Down the Noise: A Practical Guide to Building an Emotionally Healthy Family in a Chronically Overstimulated World by Sarah Boyd. Copyright © 2025. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, a Division of Tyndale House Ministries. All rights reserved.
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Sarah Boyd is a writer, entrepreneur, and child and adolescent development expert. She is the founder of Resilient Little Hearts, a movement dedicated to empowering parents, teachers, and professionals to cultivate resilience and emotional health in children. This community has quickly grown to hundreds of thousands of people. It currently offers education on the topics of high sensitivity, overcoming fear and anxiety, emotionally healthy parenting, and building resilience in children.
Sarah holds a master’ s degree in educational psychology and a diploma in the neuroscience of leadership. Sarah is married to Colin, and together they have two beautiful children. 22