Award-winning mediator and bestselling author Doug Noll joins Lianne Castelino on the Where Parents Talk podcast to discuss the neuroscience of emotional validation and how naming emotions can help parents calm tantrums, connect with tweens and teens, reduce family conflict, and support healthy emotional development.
In this episode, Doug Noll also explores the importance of emotional validation for kids and how parents can use this approach effectively.
Learn practical, evidence-based strategies for raising resilient, emotionally intelligent children.
DOUG NOLL
Award-winning Mediator
Peacemaker
Former trial lawyer
Adjunct Professor of Law, Straus Institute of Dispute Resolution
Pepperdine School of Law
“You name somebody’s feelings and the centers of the brain associated with negative emotion calm down. And the part of the brain in the prefrontal region associated with emotional self regulation activates. So just by telling somebody what they’re feeling, you calm them down.”
