"The amount of often conflicting advice for parents and caregivers available on social media can feel overwhelming. How does one even begin to sort through this overabundance of advice, much less figure out what is best practice for building healthy relationships? The Spirited Child Approach has been developed over decades of working with families of spirited children who are typical and yet more intense, persistent, perceptive, sensitive, and energetic. It interweaves findings from the fields of temperament, secure attachment, sleep, development, resiliency, neurobiology, and self-regulation."
"To make it practical and easy to apply, this information has been distilled into three key concepts: Calm, Connect, and Coach. These three concepts form a foundation, providing caregivers with a trusted home base to return to repeatedly as they review and select the strategies that best fit this child, foster a healthy sense of self, teach essential life skills, and build a strong relationship."
The Spirited Child Approach integrates temperament, secure attachment, sleep, development, resiliency, neurobiology, and self-regulation to support children who are more intense, persistent, perceptive, sensitive, and energetic. Three core concepts—Calm, Connect, and Coach—offer caregivers a practical foundation for selecting strategies that fit the child, foster a healthy sense of self, teach essential life skills, and build strong relationships. Calm emphasizes prevention and in-the-moment regulation because a brain-based arousal system can trigger fight, flight, or freeze and limit access to higher thinking. Preventive routines for food, drink, sleep, and safety and strategies that build efficient self-regulation are primary goals.
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