The Dysregulated Kid: The Parenting Playbook for Helping Your Child Find Calm in a Chaotic World

Calm the brain first—and everything else follows.

“Why does my child lose it over the smallest things?”
“Why don’t rewards or consequences work?”
“Why do I feel like I’m failing when I’m trying so hard?”

If these questions sound familiar, you’re not alone—and you’re not failing. You’re just missing the one step no one ever taught you: how to calm the nervous system first.

With more than thirty years of experience as a therapist and school psychologist, and as a mom who lived this struggle hersel...