#Wizards lizard deminion how to
We talk a lot more about HOW to help a child through a tantrum, and all of our instructors have lots of experience doing that. You help them regain control of their words and their actions And you help them to re-engage their wizard brain. That's about as effective as lecturing a lizard. You don't try to teach anything new to a flooded child. You are being the adult and making the space around you safe to be in. You are demonstrating to them that it is possible to be calm is the face of chaos.
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Well, when a child "flips their lid" that's another way to express what is going on, the most important thing to do is keep them safe, to continue talking to them, to maintain full control of your own words and actions. These things are controlled in the wizard brain, which gets turned off when a child gets flooded.
They get flooded very easily.Īnd when they are flooded, they cannot access the part of their brain that controls most of the things that a good parent is going to want them to do:Ĭonsider the risk and reward of certain actionsīe fully in control of their hands and feet Their wizard brains have a very touchy off switch.
So when children-whose brains are only half baked-regularly experience trauma, their survival instincts get put on a hair trigger.
And the more developed the wizard brain, the harder it is to turn off. So, instead you do simpler things more decisively.īut the big difference between you and a child is that your wizard brain is fully developed. Have you noticed that you can't think quite as clearly when you are stressed out, you can't find the words, you revert to shorter phrases and repeat the same actions over and over again? That's because the reasoning centers in your wizard brain are on standby. When you are flooded, your wizard brain is literally turned off. Many of them have the bodies of adults with an under-developed risk assessment center.īut anyway, when a human person feels threatened, their survival instinct puts their brain and body into a high-alert condition that we call being "flooded" because it is triggered from the lizard brain by releasing certain hormones into the bloodstream, specifically cortisol and adrenaline.Īnd these two chemicals raise your heart rate, accelerate your breathing, push blood to your big muscles, and most critically, it severs the connection between these two parts of your brain. This is why teenagers are such bizarre creatures. In women, it usually isn't done developing until their mid-twenties, and in men it usually isn't done until late twenties or even thirty. So lizard brain on the bottom, wizard brain on the top.Īnd the wizard brain develops later. This is the thinking part of your brain, and we like to call it the wizard brain. The upper part of a human brain is what controls all of the executive function like logic, risk assessment, and language. This part of a human brain develops first. Because it's all the stuff in your brain that a lizard also has in their brain.
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