51. 5 WAYS TO SELF REGULATE YOURSELF IN THE MIDST OF CHAOS

Do you want to respond to your kid's verse reacting to them? Or do you just feel like everything has to be a fight, like getting into the shower or cleaning up toys? 

Sometimes we have to look at ourselves first to be able to understand our kids' reactions and behaviors.  

At such a young age, they rely on us to help them manage their emotions, they co-regulate. They regulate themselves based on us. So we must set an example and teach and model ways to calm and self-regulate before reacting with outbursts of yelling or anger. 

Self-regulation is a life skill that highly successful people have. We teach this to our kids by modeling it ourselves.  Here are 5 ways that we can learn to self-regulate and show our kids to take a step back.