My teenage daughter and I have been working on managing our emotions better after some really explosive fights last year, but we both default to completely different strategies when things get intense and I'm not sure if we should try to sync up our approaches or learn to work with our differences. Sometimes it feels like we're speaking different emotional languages and the disconnect makes everything worse when we're both already struggling.
More people experience this than they realize.
A parent and child are using incompatible regulation frameworks that increase rather than decrease household emotional volatility.
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