We talk a lot about co-regulating our children. Name the feeling. Offer reassurance. And stay calm. Then we grow up, answer a call from our parents, and receive waves of emotions and worries before we even get to say hello. Your father’s health. Your sister’s marriage. The neighbor's dog barking in the evening. And your future, which apparently worries them more than it worries you. You pick up the phone as their child and hang up as head of the family’s Crisis Management Dep
