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Originally Posted by susannahsays
I don't disagree that might be their intention, but how very unnatural! People in real life do not respond this way unless they just don't care. Or, I suppose, if a parent is too tired to engage with a tantruming child. I'm left wondering what the point is of modeling such a bizarre response that will never be replicated in life. Maybe it's me... I've been equally baffled by other things therapists are said to model.
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Apparently, healthy people are able to regulate their emotions effectively so they rarely, if ever, even get to the point of 'exploding in anger'.
Who knew.
But i agree with the poster above.. .teaching toddlers to regulate their emotions is where it all begins. If adults were able to teach toddlers how to feel, deal and express emotions in healthy ways most people wouldn't be in such a mess.
But... we are in such a mess because the cycle just continues and people who can't express emotions and maintain healthy relationships (because they weren't taught how to do that by their own parents ) go on to emotionally harm their own children and pass own their own unhealthy relationship patterns.
So kudos to the above poster who is teaching her toddler to regulate their emotions. Your toddler is one of the lucky ones.