(I have some free resources for helping kids (and parents) better understand fight or flight here. It’s like having an alarm system on your home to protect you from burglars but it’s so sensitive that it goes off any time a bird lands on your roof. When faced with true danger, if the thinking part of our brain was functioning we’d hesitate and/or try to use logic and it could cost us our lives.ĭuring a meltdown, often what happens is that ‘alarm’ goes off when there’s not a true threat. This is a primal survival instinct, known as fight or flight. It shuts down the thinking part of the brain and simply reacts to a threat (whether perceived or real). This diagram helps make it more clear.ĭuring a meltdown, the brain enters survival mode. A lot of parents question why I advise avoiding saying no, or trying to reason with a child during a meltdown.
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