If you’ve made it this far, you already know two critical truths about children and big emotions: Anger can’t be disciplined away. Children don’t need harsher consequences — they need emotional skills. This realization is often both relieving and overwhelming for parents. Relieving, because it explains why timeouts, lectures, and punishments haven’t worked the way you hoped. Overwhelming, because it raises the next big question: “Okay… but how do I actually teach emotional re

Calm Big Emotions Fast with This Science-Backed SEL Toolkit ============================================================ Includes breathing cards, calm-down scripts, and regulation tools for kids. It’s 4:47 p.m. on a Tuesday. You’re standing in the cereal aisle at Target. Your six-year-old just spotted that cereal—the one with the cartoon character and enough sugar to fuel a small village. You’ve already said no. Multiple times. Calmly. Kindly. But today, something snaps. Bef