"Self-regulation is the ability to manage your emotional upset and behavior, and is a prerequisite skill for life success. The way adults handle emotional upset when children are throwing fits, backtalking, name-calling, being defiant and withdrawing will either foster or inhibit their ability to develop self-regulation. Managing Emotional Mayhem lays a conceptual foundation, explores limiting beliefs, presents new adult skills and teaches us how to coach children in this transformative self-regulation process"--consciousdiscipline.com.