What Co-Regulation Actually Means for a Parent and Child
Co-regulation isn’t a script or a discipline strategy — it’s the calm you bring into the room that a child’s nervous system borrows from.
Co-regulation isn’t a script or a discipline strategy — it’s the calm you bring into the room that a child’s nervous system borrows from.
Shutdowns and meltdowns are both responses to overload, but one is loud and outward while the other is quiet and internal.
A tantrum is goal-directed and responds to outcomes. A meltdown is involuntary overload that doesn’t. Telling them apart changes how to respond.
The small, well-intentioned habits that undermine trust with autistic kids, and simple ways to adjust them.
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