Find the protocol

What's the moment?

Pick the situation happening in your house. Each one gives you the next move, the script, and what to do if it fails.

Right now

Tantrum or meltdown

Screaming, on the floor, past reason

Open the protocol→

Public meltdown

Falling apart where others can see

Open the protocol→

They won't listen

You've asked five times, nothing moves

Open the protocol→

Transitions

Leaving or switching

Park, playdate, screens, any activity that has to end

Open the protocol→

Morning

Won't get ready

Dressed, breakfast, out the door, nothing moves

Open the protocol→

Won't go to school

Refusing, crying, stalling at the door

Open the protocol→

Screen time

Screen time ends in a fight

The handoff that turns into a meltdown every time

Open the protocol→

Evening

Won't eat dinner

Refuses the food, power struggle at the table

Open the protocol→

Bedtime keeps restarting

The stalling, the calling out, one more thing

Open the protocol→

Won't stay in bed

Back in your room, over and over

Open the protocol→

Behavior

Hitting

The move to make in the moment it happens

Open the protocol→

Biting

Toddler who bites others or you

Open the protocol→

Whining

The sound that makes it impossible to think

Open the protocol→

Siblings fighting

Two kids, one fight, nowhere to go

Open the protocol→

Repair

After you yelled

The room went quiet but nothing is repaired

Open the protocol→

You keep losing it

The same moment keeps triggering you

Open the protocol→

By age

Your 2-year-old

They can't say what's wrong, only fall apart

Open the protocol→

Your 3-year-old

Old enough to argue, not old enough to stop

Open the protocol→

Looking for something else?

The Foundation →All protocols →Script library →Age guides →