By: Integrated Learning Strategies
Limbic System: Your Child's On/Off Switch for Emotional Grounding, Fight or Flight and Meltdowns. Two brain systems share the important task of regulating your child's emotions. Both have distinct jobs that have differing focuses on internal and external demands.
Tips and Tricks To promote better development in your child’s limbic system and cerebral cortex for emotional grounding, try top to bottom exercises at home. These exercises cross over both the top and bottom parts of the body, which separates both in half. It is the imaginary midline, called the transverse midline that can help your child’s brain stabilize their emotions, timing, rhythm, and learning.