Season 4 Episode 3: 'Becoming a Behavior Detective: Emotional Co-Regulation' with Kim Hughes

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Season 4 Episode 3: 'Becoming a Behavior Detective: Emotional Co-Regulation' with Kim Hughes
Apr 27, 2026 Season 4 Episode 3
New Horizon Academy | Cara Johnson-Bader

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Kim Hughes, a Conscious Discipline certified instructor, joins us to discuss how parents, guardians and caretakers can become better "behavior detectives". Kim demonstrates how through treating tricky behavior as a form of communication, and using emotional co-regulation as a tool to get us back to square one, we can set the children in our care up for long-term success.  

In this episode we discuss:

  • Conscious Discipline as a practice
  • The brain state model
  • Moving from controlling to connecting (modeling)
  • Naming feelings
  • Seeing mistakes as future opportunities
  • Arming children with alternative modes of expressing needs


Attached are links Kim recommends for furthering our education on emotional literacy:


The Brain State Model

https://consciousdiscipline.com/methodology/brain-state-model/

Cliffs notes for the skills of conscious discipline

https://consciousdiscipline.com/e-learning/webinars/parent-cliff-notes-for-the-skills-of-conscious-discipline/

'Easy to Love, Difficult to Discipline' (Dr. Becky Bailey, 2001)

https://www.harpercollins.com/products/easy-to-love-difficult-to-discipline-becky-a-bailey?variant=32128336232482

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