Practicing gentle parenting requires regulating your own emotions and responding to your children in a calm and thoughtful manner. Let's explore why regulating your own emotions is important for gentle parenting and discuss some strategies for doing so.

Sometimes everything feels wrong and there is no obvious reason…In those moments, when it can be really hard to figure out what to do to get through that "icky" feeling, the HALT method can help identify and address the source of the negative feeling.