Roots & Wings Mental Health Fitness for Families
Building Roots for Wings to Unfold
Category: Behavioural Regulation
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For decades, the “cry it out” (CIO) method clinicalized controlled crying. It has been sold to exhausted parents as a necessary rite of passage. The promise is simple: endure a few nights of heartbreak, and you will be rewarded with a child who “self-soothes.” As an early years educator with over 20 years of experience,…
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Why Regulation/Peace/Chill Zones Support the Whole Child Many child caregivers and educators present time-out as a behaviour management strategy, an approach believed to teach children self-control by removing them from the situation. When we pause and view this practice through a developmental, relational, and regulation-based lens, a different truth emerges: isolation does not teach regulation.…