ABSTRACT
We invite you to let the following question anchor you during this next section: How many minutes would you be willing to invest to increase cooperation and collaboration with your child? What about to avoid a meltdown? What’s reasonable to expect given your schedule and competing priorities? Twenty minutes? Ten minutes? Two minutes? Hopefully this is good news – the structure we are proposing can take as little as 90 seconds. That’s right – less than 2 minutes. Now, it can take longer too – and sometimes a 5- or 10-minute investment yields the greatest reward, but we want you to know that we are proposing a brief approach to interaction that is most likely to calm the brain enough (not 100%) so that your child becomes more flexible in the moment and open to move on to the next thought, feeling, or activity.
