
What is Emotional Regulation?
You may have heard the big buzz about being emotionally regulated.
About being “calm.”
And recently, a fantastic book came out by Eli Harwood (aka the Attachment Nerd) called Raising Securely Attached Kids where she even states in the glossary of terms right in front that regulated means calm and children need caregivers who are calm.
But that’s not my understanding.

3 Ways to Stay Grounded When Your Kids Are Going Nuts
We’ve all been there. Maybe you’ve had a long day, or perhaps you just aren’t feeling great. Or maybe the day started off perfect and just devolved into chaos!
But here you are - your head is pulsating, your eyes want to shrink backwards into your skull, your heart racing, teeth clenched against all the sensory input.
The volume from is increasing from the kids, they are running back and forth from room to room, laughing, yelling, screaming, and you don’t understand why are about to scream at them?
So what can you do in that moment? Because you know what happens if you don’t do something (and honestly, taking a deep breath or two…or ten…doesn’t always do it) you are going to yell, or exit with a slammed door behind you, and then all of you will be in tears.

