---
title: "Trauma Informed Parenting-Sequential Engagement"
description: "**Summary: **Dr. Bruce Perry discusses the Three R’s (Regulate, Relate, and Reason) and how parents can build skills around the sequence of engagement to best help children when they are feeling dysregulated.   **Application: **Utilizing sequential engagement can help parents respond and…"
url: "https://bridges4mentalhealth.org/hub/parenting-resources/trauma-informed-parenting-sequential-engagement/"
updated: "2026-07-31"
category: Parenting Resources
tags:
  - Audience
  - Families
  - Video
---

# Trauma Informed Parenting-Sequential Engagement

**Summary: **Dr. Bruce Perry discusses the Three R’s (Regulate, Relate, and Reason) and how parents can build skills around the sequence of engagement to best help children when they are feeling dysregulated.

 

**Application: **Utilizing sequential engagement can help parents respond and create a sense of calm and safety when their children are dysregulated .

 

**Source: **National Training and Development Curriculum

 

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