A Parent’s Calm Rewrites A Child’s Stress Response – Psychology

Your calm is more powerful than any correction.
Each time you regulate instead of react, your child’s brain learns how to return from chaos to safety.
This is how emotional intelligence is inherited — through nervous system harmony.

Emotional co-regulation helps children internalize the ability to self-soothe. Chronic parental reactivity, by contrast, can dysregulate long-term stress pathways.