A new placement. A new school. A new key worker. A new bedtime.

For most children, transitions are uncomfortable. For looked after children, they can feel catastrophic — and the behaviour that follows is almost always misread.

In this episode, Carmel and Chelsea go beneath the surface of what's really happening when a young person "kicks off" during change — and why the nervous system doesn't care that the move is "for their own good."

We talk about:

• What transitions actually trigger in a child with a history of loss
• Why the smallest changes (a new shift pattern, a different mug, a swapped routine) can land harder than the big ones
• How adults unintentionally make transitions worse — even with the best intentions
• What regulation, safety, and trust look like in practice when everything feels unstable
• The difference between managing a transition and holding a child through one

Because transitions aren't events. They're experiences — and how we show up during them shapes what a child believes about adults for years to come.

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