<p>Media use for emotion regulation, such as occupying children when they are bored or distracting them from negative emotions, is a common practice for parents in the United States, but it has been linked with weaker emotion regulation skills among young children. This association has not been examined in the presence of other family context variables, such as parent reactions to children’s emotional expressions or quality of the child-parent relationship, however. This survey study (<i>N</i> = 449, 53% fathers) examines parents’ use of media for child emotion regulation within a tripartite model of adjustment. Media use for emotion regulation associated with greater emotion regulation skills for children (ages 4–7). There was not a significant relation between media use for emotion regulation and children’s emotional maladjustment, however. Greater frequency of parents’ negative reactions to their children’s emotions was significantly associated with more internalizing and externalizing issues for children but also with better emotion regulation skills. Further, better parent-child relationship was associated with fewer internalizing and externalizing issues and better emotion regulation skills. We outline theoretical and practical implications and discuss future directions to further assess the effects of family context on children’s emotion regulation.</p>