Consoling an anxious or upset child is challenging, say experts Rachel Romer, Adam Grant and Brené Brown. Using certain words can make the situation worse.
Every small child gets anxious sometimes. But when your kid is panicking, there's a common two-word phrase you should never utter: Calm down.
"I'm in the middle of parenting two little 4-year-olds, and I think about when they are anxious, saying 'calm down' is about the worst thing you can tell a 4-and-a-half-year-old," Romer recently said on Guild's " last month. "This actually shifts your physiology from sympathetic nervous system arousal, which is the stress and anxiety mode, to parasympathetic, which is the relax and recover mode," Goleman said."What [Wood Brooks] found was, instead of trying to calm down, it was easier to reappraise anxiety as excitement and say, 'Look, anxiety involves uncertainty.
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