Empowering Your Child: Practical Strategies for Calming Tantrums


Parenting can be a rollercoaster of emotions, especially when faced with challenging moments like tantrums involving hitting or biting. In this PDF, we provide practical strategies to help your child calm down during such situations. By implementing these techniques, you can create a peaceful and secure environment for your family. These strategies are not only beneficial for your child's well-being but also for your own. By learning how to assist your child in regulating their emotions, you also learn how to manage your own frustrations and feelings of overwhelm.


The PDF contains over ten different tools to help your child soothe their nervous system throughout the day. By incorporating these techniques into your daily routine, you can help your child learn how to self-regulate effectively. One of the essential skills highlighted in the PDF is the practice of moving from our heads to our bodies. This shift enables both parents and children to connect with their physical sensations, allowing them to manage emotions more efficiently and lead to a calmer state of being.


Learning these techniques not only benefits the child but also strengthens the parent-child relationship. By providing a supportive and understanding environment during challenging moments, parents can help their children navigate their emotions in a healthy way. Remember, children learn best through modeling, so by practicing self-regulation ourselves, we effectively teach our children how to do the same. By utilizing the tools in this PDF, you can pave the way for a more peaceful and connected family dynamic, where smiles replace screams.

Why Learn From Lina Acosta Sandaal?


Lina Acosta Sandaal, MA, LMFT is a psychotherapist, development expert, writer, and founder of Stop Parenting Alone, a parenting education and consulting program in Miami, FL. She is a writer on social emotional learning for Macmillan Education, the human development expert for Telemundo’s national broadcasts and consultant for MomsRising, an advocacy group for family rights in our nation’s capital. Her mission is for all parents to fall in love with their parenting journey.

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