Brain First Parenting with Eileen Devine
Ep. 43 | Interrupting Those Exhausting Escalation Cycles
· 17 min
Show notes
SUMMARY - Why do the same power struggles keep happening over and over again between parents and children? In this episode, Eileen explores the “coercive cycle,” a pattern first identified by researcher Gerald Patterson and his colleagues after decades of observing parent-child interactions. Through a Brain First lens, she explains why these escalating moments are often rooted not in defiance, but in lagging skills, nervous system dysregulation, and patterns both parents and children can unintentionally get stuck inside.
TAKEAWAYS:
• What the parent-child “coercive cycle” is and how it…
