Here are some ways to support the development of healthy emotion regulation skills in children through co-regulation: Label emotions: yours, mine, everybody’s! Parents are encouraged to label their own emotions (e.g., “I’m so excited about going to the pool with you today!”), those of their child (e.g., “I know you are feeling sad because the play date is over”) and those in books, on tv, in videogames, etc. (e.g., “The dog is feeling frustrated because he lost his bone! He

The Promise of "Us" Although I've worked with families and couples for the better part of 15 years, I have often found myself befuddled when asked the most fundamental question of marriage counseling: "What makes it work?" I began to realize that I had been defining marriage as two individuals trying to get along for their mutual happiness. It was this individuality that was the problem. No matter how I sliced it, when the two individuals differed in the marriage, they ca