Teaching Kids Emotion Regulation Sets Them Up for Success as Adults
Recently, I’ve been listening to an audiobook version of The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins. While I have a lot of thoughts about the book, something I listened to recently has been rattling around in my brain, especially when I think about the work that I do. In Chapter 6 of the book, Robbins talks about emotional maturity in relationships, and the start of that conversation is emotion regulation in children. Robbins talks about her research into the concept and the knowledge that strong emotion regulation skills in childhood are more likely to lead to emotional maturity in adulthood. We hear a lot about “emotion regulation” these days when it comes to children and teens. I’ve heard a lot of people, both parents and non-parents alike, wondering why emotional maturity is so important, or what it even is. Robbins makes a really good point that I think helps explain why emotional maturity is both so important and so confusing: “Most people don’t know how to process thei...