Beyond Behaviors Quotes

“Are the child’s brain and body experiencing safety? And if not, how do we first help the child to feel safe?”
― Mona Delahooke, Beyond Behaviors: Using Brain Science and Compassion to Understand and Solve Children's Behavioral Challenges

“When I came to view problematic behaviors as adaptive responses and not purposeful misbehavior I shifted nearly all of my beliefs about how to help children and families.”
― Mona Delahooke, Beyond Behaviors: Using Brain Science and Compassion to Understand and Solve Children's Behavioral Challenges

“applies the Polyvagal theory developed by Stephen Porges to children, convincingly making the case that many children who can’t seem to behave themselves simply don’t have that developmental capacity yet, and giving us a social-emotional roadmap for how children learn to self-regulate.”
― Mona Delahooke, Beyond Behaviors: Using Brain Science and Compassion to Understand and Solve Children's Behavioral Challenges