Jennifer Kolari on 'Connected Parenting'

For many parents, our vision of parenting verse the reality is very different. In this wonderful interview, Jennifer Kolari, author, clinician, and founder of 'Connected Parenting' talks about how to re-connect with our children and how to help them when they are really struggling. Jennifer will be presenting for an entire day on Connected Parenting at our 2021 Children's Mental Health Conference.
Developmental experiences have a profound impact on how a mature brain functions. The more pleasant experiences a child’s brain has, the more the brain specializes for positivity. In fact, scientists now know that strong bonding between parent and child increases the reward chemicals in the brain which have been proven to increase trust, deescalate heated situations, decrease anxiety and significantly improve emotional resilience. Parents are intimately responsible for this brain development and although they want to do everything possible to give their children the tools for resilience, social health and happiness, they don’t always know how. This must also be balanced with limit setting which is critical to a child’s emotional safety and optimal brain growth. In fact, parents are not really parents at all... They are substitute frontal lobes... providing inhibition, motivation and regulation by co-regulating until children develop a fully formed frontal lobe of their own. Connected Parenting brings these two essential factors together in a
beautiful method based in Psycho-Neurobiology.

[@DieterWentzelCHRP]

Amazing, thank you.