CHILD AND EMOTIONAL REGULATION

When your brain perceives danger, you will enter a mode known as flight, fight or freeze. Your heart races, your muscles tenses up, your hands shake, and your emotions take over rational thought. You've entered the Flood Zone! When children experience the Flood Zone, their behaviour changes. They yell, bite or run away. They withdraw and lose concentration. They blame and lie. In this state, children are unable to be rational and compliant. Children (even an adult) inside the Flood Zone, can't recognize or manage their emotions, even they want or know how. In this book, Allison Edwards explains how parents, teachers and counselors can identify when children have entered the Flood Zone and offers suggestions for teaching children how to regain control of their emotions