When Life Overwhelms, Why Do Our Kids Fall Apart? Most of us have thought it: Can’t they see how much is going on? Why can’t they just behave so we can deal with this chaos? The cruel reality is that when life veers off course, we become overwhelmed—and overwhelmed carers almost always leads to dysregulated children. The reason is simple: when we enter "survival mode," our children sense our cortisol and our chaos. They mirror it. It becomes a vicious cycle. When we have limi

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