Melinda’s Reviews > Tiny Humans, Big Emotions: How to Navigate Tantrums, Meltdowns, and Defiance to Raise Emotionally Intelligent Children > Status Update

“If, on the other hand, we rush over with an activated or dysregulated limbic system, the child’s limbic system is going to respond with the same level of intensity—it reads our energy as unsafe. Adults with calm limbic systems are safest for children, and their limbic systems know it.”