Validate Feelings. Create Boundaries for Behavior

Validating your child or teen's feelings is not the same as giving them permission for unacceptable behavior.

Feelings and behavior are two different things. Behavior is a communication of feelings.

As you learn to pause and breath to calm your reaction, when your teen is acting out, you become more available to connect emotionally with your child.

Correction, discussion and implementing better boundaries needs to happen later when everyone has calmed down.