COACHING
Tantrums and big emotions in early childhood
Do you sometimes feel helpless regarding your child's uncontrolled emotions?
Do you have difficulties understanding the causes of your child's tantrums?
Are you looking for a practical course that provides you with effective tools for dealing with tantrums?
Do you want to improve your bond and your communication with your child to reduce the potential for tantrums?
Is it challenging for you to set clear boundaries and addressing your child's resistance?
Have your previous efforts to handle your child’s tantrums not been effective?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, this course will provide you with the necessary tools to address the issue effectively.
You will receive practical tips and proven strategies to minimize tantrums and guide your child in regulating strong emotions.
The coaching is divided into four modules, with each session lasting approximately 50 minutes.
Content overview
Development of toddlers:
- The underdeveloped Prefrontal Cortex (the brain at the age of 2-4 years).
- The autonomy phase – Testing boundaries and setting boundaries.
- Tantrums are normal, how they can be predicted and minimised.
Understanding and handling emotions:
- Understanding, accepting, and enduring our children's negative feelings.
- Strengthening the bond.
- Practical tips for dealing with intense emotions (naming of emotion and accompanying emotions).
How little children cooperate:
- Be creative.
- Give Option A or B.
- Give your child the command.
- Say what you see.
- Express how you feel.
- Act and comment.
Emergency plan for XL-tantrums and defiance:
- What to do when nothing works (Extreme case).
- Why punishment is not effective.
- Action plan in 5 steps.
- Tips for self-compassion for parents.
MODULE I
Development of toddlers:
- Understanding the toddler brain - Explaining uncontrollable anger, frustration, and resistance.
- The Autonomy Phase: Children want to test boundaries, set healthy limits and why they are crucial.
- The most common triggers for uncontrollable emotions and how to minimize them.
- Your role as a guide.
MODULE II
Understanding and handling emotions:
- Learn to understand your child's negative feelings without projecting them onto yourself (handling our children's frustration).
- Strengthening the bond through rituals, communication, or the "Tune in"-technique.
- Practical tips for dealing with our children's anger/frustration (neutral naming, empathetic support).
MODULE III
How little children cooperate:
- Practical tips to get children to do what we say.
- Using creative, playful, empathetic, and rational parenting methods.
MODULE IV
Emergency plan for tantrums XL, defiance, and resistance:
- What to do in extreme cases - when you've tried everything and nothing works (conflict resolution).
- Why punishment achieves nothing but rather produces the opposite effect.
- Action plan in 5 steps.
- Self-compassion for parents - patience and understanding for yourself during turbulent times.
Katja
Do you have questions or doubts?
For any questions/doubts, feel free to contact me for a free initial consultation or send me an email through the form below.
