Child Psychology: How to decompress your kid [Video]

Tania Johnson and Tammy Schamuhn, the founders of the Institute of Child Psychology, joined CTV Morning Live’s Kent Morrison on what you can do to help your kid with after-school stress.

This transcript has been edited for length and clarity.

Kent Morrison: When your kids come home from school today, there may be a meltdown coming, an emotional release that can come right when they enter the home. For advice on what’s happening and why we care, how can we help navigate this after school meltdown? Why does this happen?

Tania Johnson:Meltdowns at any time are exhausting, not only for the kid, but also for the parents. So often we try and just extinguish it through punishing or trying to bribe our kids or turning a TV on. When we take a few steps back and go, “what’s really happening here?” it helps us to parent from a more compassionate place. If we think about it, for our kids, I like …