Calm yourself first — your nervous system calms the child's via physiological synchronization.

Place hand on heart or cheek 2 min — your body knows kindness.

Breathe with another body (partner or animal) — regulates nervous system.

When someone near you is distressed, lower your own voice and pace first — your calm body lends calm.

Don't ask "do we need another hire?" — ask "if we started today with nobody, who'd we hire first?".

A playful breathing technique for kids 3-7: three short bunny sniffs, then one long exhale.

Don't interrogate your child entering from school — give him 45 minutes of decompression first.

Ask the model to decompose the problem and show its reasoning before answering, raising accuracy on complex tasks.