Dealing with our emotions when we feel triggered by our children

As parents, we can feel triggered by our baby crying for long periods of time, by our toddler acting out or by our 5-year-old ignoring us. We can’t control if and when a trigger will happen, but we can control how we react to triggers. My conversation with Bryana, Director of South Bay Mommy and me, is all about how we regulate ourselves. We discuss what you can do to learn more about “why” you are responding a certain way to triggers, how certain ways of responding to a trigger can impact a child’s behavior, how you can bring yourself back down to a state of calm when you are triggered and how our past/upbringing can play into the way in which we respond to triggers.


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Do you have frequent emotional outbursts, often feel triggered by your child's behaviour and struggle to teach your child how to cope with their emotions? Neuroscientst, Dr. Cindy Hovington can help you understand your triggers, recognize and break your emotional patterns and model healthy emotional coping skills for your child. Curious Neuron is an internationally recognized emotional well-being resource for parents with their evidence-based educational content being consumed in over 70 countries! Dr. Hovington is a leading thought expert in emotion regulation and parental well-being as well as an international speaker on well-being and emotional development in children. As a mom of 3 with a doctorate degree in neuroscience (specializing in mental health and emotional well-being), Dr. Hovington understands the struggles of parenting and how this can often make parents to feel overwhelmed and stressed. The goal of this podcast is to help parents gain awareness of their emotional triggers, understand how their past influences behavioural patterns they can stuck in and help them learn how to model healthy emotional coping skills for their children. Cindy is also the Director of The Reflective Parent Club, a community of parents that implement the knowledge they learn from Curious Neuron to build emotional resilience and reflective skills to help reduce their stress and build a stronger relationship with their family. Join us every Monday for conversations with leading researchers and best selling authors in parental well-being, childhood adversity, attachment, emotional development, stress management and emotion regulation skills. Past guests include Dr. Bruce Perry, Dr. Marc Brackett and best-selling authors Dr. Ramani Durvasula and Stephanie Harrison.Tune in, transform your parenting journey, and create a thriving emotional environment for your entire family. Start listening today—because when parents grow, kids flourish.Subscribe today not to meet next week's episode! To learn more from Curious Neuron, dive deeper into this episode, to purchase one of our workbook or to join The Reflective Parent Club, visit www.curiousneuron.com.Follow us on Instagram @curious_neuron.