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Speaker Tricia DeFazio urges parents to 'practice the pause' and model emotional regulation for children
Summary
Educational consultant Tricia DeFazio presented strategies for parents to model emotional regulation, introduced take-home tools for mapping calming strategies and led interactive exercises for identifying coping techniques for both parents and children.
Tricia DeFazio, an educational consultant, speaker and author, led a parent workshop on emotional regulation that emphasized parents as role models and offered practical tools families can use at home and at school.
“An emotionally regulated adult is the best thing that we can give a child,” DeFazio told attendees, framing the session around the idea that adults who model calm help children learn to regulate their own emotions. She described anger, sadness…
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