Tricia Goyer joins me to talk about tools she uses to help calm angry kids.  She is the mom of 10 and has experience with biological children, foster children, and adopted children.

"When you acknowledge their emotions, then they're able to jump from the reactions to the conversation and move from the emotional part of their brain back to the thinking part."

"Three ways [ respond in anger]  are flight, fight and freeze, and so flight is they're just going to take off because the emotions are so overwhelming....Fight is they're going to stand their ground, the adrenaline's pumping and they're going to fight and argue....Freeze is another one I think we don't recognize as much, but they're the ones that will withdraw into themselves."

"I really had to remind myself, I don't do well if someone's nagging me, but if someone's praising me and telling me I did a good job I'm gonna do it [well]. So that has made a huge, huge difference in our home environment. When I feel myself wanting to nag I'll say, what can I praise them for?"

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