Saturday, April 19, 2025

Why We Must Cease Labeling the “Tough” Youngster with Nina Essel, LCSW


Immediately we’re diving into a subject that’s very near my coronary heart. Together with being a mum or dad of a kid typically labeled as “tough,” I do know that so many different youngsters are unfairly pigeonholed due to their conduct. And I’ve come to appreciate: it’s not a lot concerning the precise conduct as it’s about understanding the foundation explanation for that conduct.

To have this dialog with me right this moment on Yoga | Beginning | Infants is Nina Essell. Nina is a Licensed Medical Social Employee with over a decade of expertise as a faculty social employee supporting youngsters and households. Nina holds a Grasp’s of Social Work from Columbia College and a Grasp’s of Science in Childhood Normal and Particular Schooling from Financial institution Avenue Faculty of Schooling. Nina is a complicated licensed coach within the Nurtured Coronary heart Strategy in addition to Kimochis, a social emotional studying curriculum. At the moment, she is a parenting coach and marketing consultant, offering 1-on-1 teaching, parenting workshops, {and professional} coaching.

On this episode, we discover how households can reframe difficult behaviors, the significance of fogeys discovering their very own grounding throughout moments of dysregulation, and sensible instruments youngsters can use to determine huge feelings- earlier than they boil over. My hope is that we, as a society, can get to a spot of understanding these children with out judgement. Get pleasure from this episode.

On this episode, you’ll be taught: 

  • About Nina and what led her to social work and specializing in youngsters 
  • What is usually behind “tough” conduct
  • Why it’s the incorrect method to suppose you’ll be able to merely repair a conduct sample, and that may remedy the issue
  • How Nina helps households look at and reframe the place difficult conduct comes from and helps them determine the foundation causes of it
  • What dysregulation is and the way it’s current in children
  • How mother and father can assist their children when they’re dysregulated
  • Instruments that children can use to higher determine their emotions and inner cues, in order that the emotions don’t instantly flip into tantrums or disruptive conduct 
  • Ways in which mother and father can advocate for his or her children in a faculty system that’s typically not geared up to assist children who’ve totally different needs- whether or not it’s sensory wants or neurodivergence
  • One last tip or piece of recommendation that Nina want to supply new and expectant mother and father
  • The place you’ll find her work

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About Nina:

Nina is a Licensed Medical Social Employee with over a decade of expertise as a faculty social employee supporting youngsters and households. At the moment as a parenting coach and marketing consultant, Nina supplies 1:1 teaching, parenting workshops, {and professional} coaching. Nina collaborates with households, faculties and suppliers to scale back difficult conduct and enhance little one and household outcomes. Nina holds a Grasp’s of Social Work from Columbia College and a Grasp’s of Science in Childhood Normal and Particular Schooling from Financial institution Avenue Faculty of Schooling. Nina is a complicated licensed coach within the Nurtured Coronary heart Strategy in addition to Kimochis, a social emotional studying curriculum. Along with her skilled work, Nina can be a mother of three.

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