福克斯新闻 家长应该如何应对孩子哭闹

Fox on Family. You probably know what it feels like to be really angry. But can we teach our kids to calm themselves down?: "You can't stop that anger on a dime¹ once the hormones² dump."

So Doctor, former Marine³ and father-of-three Andrew Wittman, says the key is awareness⁴ and time. When a big emotion is coming, giving the brain and body something else to do can help, like a breathing exercise: "Start with four, hold it for four, exhale⁵ for four, making it a game; something different than this thought process of I'm just angry and the emotional reaction."

Word games can work, too; finding letters, or for younger kids eye-spy with colors: "And get them to be able to do it on their own, right, so they can start looking for those colors. Hey. You know what, I calm down when I start finding all these things that are yellow or finding things that are green. Even at three-years-old they can get that."

And if you tend to calm yourself down when you get upset instead of exploding, let them see how you do it. Wittman also says if their behavior crosses a line, stop it right away, every time, so they know what's not acceptable.

With FOX on Family, I'm Lisa Brady.

欢迎收听《福克斯家庭新闻》。你可能知道那种火冒三丈的感觉。问题是，有没有可以让孩子们自己冷静下来的办法呢？“一旦愤怒的荷尔蒙爆发出来，你就无法轻易地将其熄灭。”

身为医生、前海军陆战队员和三个孩子的父亲的安德鲁·惠特曼说，解决这一问题的关键在于意识和时间。很激动的情绪就要爆发时，让大脑和身体做点儿别的事情会有帮助，比如进行呼吸练习：“吸气四秒，憋气四秒，呼气四秒，把它变成游戏的形式；就是做一些别的事情，而不是一直想着我很生气，想着这种情绪反应。”

做做文字游戏也可以；比如找字母，如果孩子还比较小的话也可以让他们分辩颜色：“要让他们学会自己去做这些，没错，这样他们就会开始去找那些颜色。嘿，你知道吗，当我开始去找所有的黄色或绿色的东西时我就会平静下来。即便是3岁的孩子也能用这个办法。”

如果你习惯在你不高兴的时候让自己冷静下来而不是选择爆发，那就让孩子们看看你是怎么做的。惠特曼还说，如果孩子的行为越了界，就要立刻阻止他们，每次都要，要让他们知道什么事情是不可以做的。

感谢您收听《福克斯家庭新闻》，我是丽萨·布莱迪。

1 dime   

n.（指美国、加拿大的钱币）一角

参考例句：

• A dime is a tenth of a dollar.一角银币是十分之一美元。
• The liberty torch is on the back of the dime.自由火炬在一角硬币的反面。

2 hormones   

n. 荷尔蒙，激素 名词hormone的复数形式

参考例句：

• This hormone interacts closely with other hormones in the body. 这种荷尔蒙与体內其他荷尔蒙紧密地相互作用。
• The adrenals produce a large per cent of a man's sex hormones. 肾上腺分泌人体的大部分性激素。

3 marine   

adj.海的；海生的；航海的；海事的；n.水兵

参考例句：

• Marine creatures are those which live in the sea. 海洋生物是生存在海里的生物。
• When the war broke out,he volunteered for the Marine Corps.战争爆发时，他自愿参加了海军陆战队。

4 awareness   

n.意识，觉悟，懂事，明智

参考例句：

• There is a general awareness that smoking is harmful.人们普遍认识到吸烟有害健康。
• Environmental awareness has increased over the years.这些年来人们的环境意识增强了。

5 exhale   

v.呼气，散出，吐出，蒸发

参考例句：

• Sweet odours exhale from flowers.花儿散发出花香。
• Wade exhaled a cloud of smoke and coughed.韦德吐出一口烟，然后咳嗽起来。