47. Emotion Regulation Skill Building Part 9: Stress inoculation

Today is a jam-packed episode in which I cover the most essential part of helping our children develop solid emotion regulation skills.

A key point I have talked about repeatedly is that kiddos need to learn to cope with their emotions and build resilience through the right experiences. Today I talk specifically about how important stress inoculation is for kiddos to learn to manage big feelings.

When kids are allowed to stay within their comfort zones and adults walk on eggshells to avoid any big emotional or behavioural meltdowns, we are setting these kiddos up for failure. They never learn how to cope. They lose the chance to practice and grow

The focus on today then is about setting up the right experiences so that kiddos can cope with their frustration, grief, disappointment, anger, worries, and other big feelings.

And learn helpful ways to respond (instead of giving up, freaking out, or avoiding).

I also talk about how important stress inoculation is to self-esteem, confidence, and competence.

Don’t miss today’s episode – it is the foundation for our success to support children and youth’s emotion regulation.

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