{"id":6904,"date":"2017-03-06T23:24:57","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T23:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/dealing-big-feelings-teaching-kids-self-regulate\/"},"modified":"2017-03-06T23:24:57","modified_gmt":"2017-03-06T23:24:57","slug":"dealing-big-feelings-teaching-kids-self-regulate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/dealing-big-feelings-teaching-kids-self-regulate\/","title":{"rendered":"Dealing with Big Feelings \u2013 Teaching Kids How to Self-Regulate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Life with a small human can be hilarious, wonderful, ridiculous and unpredictable. And wild \u2013 so wild. All kids are capable of \u2018bewildering\u2019\u00a0behaviours that can bring the strongest of us to our knees. These behaviours\u00a0can take different forms. There are the ones that can be seen through the eye of a needle from a solar system away<em>,<\/em>\u00a0no trouble at all \u2013 meltdowns, outbursts\u00a0and tantrums, hitting, screaming. Then there are the ones that are a little harder to spot, but which light up our radar all the same \u2013 the worries that spin out of control, the sadness or withdrawal that lasts a little longer than it should, the tendency to bottle up feelings.<\/p>\n<p>None of us were born knowing how to control big emotions and our children will take a while to learn. This is okay \u2013 time is something they have plenty of. In the meantime, the job for us as the adults in their lives who care about them, is to nurture their ability to manage their emotional responses in healthy, adaptive ways.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.heysigmund.com\/how-to-self-regulate\/\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/www.heysigmund.com\/how-to-self-regulate\/\" data-cke-saved- target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to read more from Hey Sigmund -&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life with a small human can be hilarious, wonderful, ridiculous and unpredictable. And wild \u2013 so wild. All kids are capable of \u2018bewildering\u2019\u00a0behaviours that can bring the strongest of us to our knees. These behaviours\u00a0can take different forms. There are the ones that can be seen through the eye of a needle from a solar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10664,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[148,139,140],"tags":[647,152,648,371,649,650,651],"age":[],"content-type":[],"persona":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6904"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6904"},{"taxonomy":"age","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/age?post=6904"},{"taxonomy":"content-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-type?post=6904"},{"taxonomy":"persona","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/persona?post=6904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}