Does your child find it tricky to manage their own emotions, feelings, and behaviours? Or they may also show challenges in calming down and acting reasonably when they are dysregulated. This is because the amygdala, a structure in the brain that is responsible for processing and expressing emotions, overrules the frontal cortical regions, which enable us to think before we act.
Therefore, co-regulation from caregivers is crucial to support children to get their frontal cortical regions ‘back online’. This plays an important role in supporting children to develop their self-regulation skills.
