Parent coach Krissy Pozatek offers her best tips for embracing your child's emotions while challenging their problematic behaviors.

Do you want to learn how to help your anxious, sensitive, or emotional child self-regulate, rather then jumping in to fix or change your child's feeling?

Some parents may respond with a 'No, you are in trouble' and another parent might respond, 'Yes, sweetie, we'll fix it.' In both scenarios, the child is not learning to identify the difference between their emotion and their behavior, and likely they are not learning to emotionally self-regulate.

Krissy Pozatek is a parent coach and qualified social worker who supports parents of children aged 11 to 25. Many of her clients' children have emotional or mental health challenges.

In this Hack, Pozatek shares three steps you can take to help your child self-regulate. You can use them with a child as young as five or as old as 25 — you just need to tailor your approach and language.