Your child may seem to change from their sweet little self into a monster. That’s an amygdala hijack. The amygdala is hijacking their normal personality. This happens in adults too. However, in adults, we call it hypertension.
Hypertension leads to heart disease, the number 1 cause of death in the US. And all sorts of other terrible things.
In children, it leads to avoidance behaviors such as tantrums.
Remember, the amygdala is not logical. It is a very old part of our brain that does this. It hasn’t evolved into the modern world. It does not know that these things are not real existential threats.
That doesn’t matter, it’s in charge until we lull it back to sleep. So to stop the bad behavior, that's what we do