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Carl Honore Slow Parenting TPPP2
The Parent Practice Podcast
10/11/19 • 31 min
How to thrive in a fast world by slowing down
Do you feel that the world is moving too fast? Do you worry that the busyness of modern life is detracting from connection in families? Are you your child’s entertainment director or project manager, micro-managing your child’s life? Has parenting become a cross between a competitive sport and product development for you? Do you sometimes feel burnt out, overwhelmed, dissatisfied and worried about your child’s future?
Listen to this episode with Carl Honoré if you want to learn:
- How we are enthralled to the cult of speed. But there is a more mindful revolution going on.
- How busyness has become a badge of honour –if you’re not busy you’re not important. But busyness can be a way of running away from some very important questions like ‘Who am I?’, ‘What is my purpose?’, ‘Am I living the right life?’ Those questions require physical and cognitive space.
- How to do slow. Because racing through your life is not really living it.
- Awareness of beliefs that affect our choices such as that there are winners and losers in the game of life and our children need to get the edge on others to succeed; that there is only one path to success and if we deviate from the path our children will be ruined for life.
- How to transform your family life through a detox experience which will give you greater connection with each other and renewed vigour.
- About the 4 slow parenting commandments:
- For journeys of less than 2 miles ditch the car and walk and talk with your children
- Children drop all Extra Curricular Activities bar one.
- Families eat at least one meal together each day
- Parents have a relaxing ritual each day
Carl talks about how there is increased awareness in schools of children’s happiness but there still much panic amongst parents about getting children ready for the workplace. At TPP we are very aware of this and so created our workshop series Maximising Your Child’s Potential at School to help parents develop the ‘soft’ skills they’ll need to succeed, the ones which are not on the curriculum. Carl also identifies social media as adding considerably to the pressure to be perfect that both children and adults experience. Learn how to manage a child’s use of social media in our workshop Parenting in a Digital World.
In our celebration of vulnerability and perfect imperfection Carl shares with us a Low Parenting Moment of his own.
And his top tip for raising children to be confident, happy and successful.
Dr Laura Markham Peaceful Parenting TPPP1
The Parent Practice Podcast
10/04/19 • 36 min
Are you interested in peaceful parenting? Do you want to ditch the shouting and connect with your child in a more loving way?
Listen to this episode with Dr Laura Markham if you want to learn:
- Why relationship is everything; how anything you do to encourage your child or discipline them or get them into good habits for life will be for nought if you don’t have a positive connection with them.
- About what role a child’s maturing brain plays in cooperation and self-discipline
- How to shift a child’s agenda from what they want to do to what you need them to do. Learn about how a child can give up something they want in the moment for something they want more –to connect with you.
- About Dr Laura’s 3 big ideas to shift from less drama to more love
- How to keep calm, to stop being hijacked by emotions. This involves rewiring our brains. Anger is the human response to fear. When parents get afraid or worried about our child we react from anxiety and it touches off an anger response. Dr Laura advises how to avoid it
Finally, in our celebration of vulnerability and perfect imperfection Dr Laura shares with us a Low Parenting Moment of her own and her top tip for raising children to be confident, happy and successful.
Louise Treherne - Helping Children Cope with the Return to School TPPP34
The Parent Practice Podcast
07/10/20 • 50 min
Some of you will have children who have already returned to school, albeit part time, and some of you will have children who will be returning for the first time in September, so this episode has relevance for everybody whatever transition you are going through. Some children are terribly excited about going back and some are quite apprehensive. And parents may have mixed feelings too.
Our guest today is Louise Treherne who is Head of Character Education at ‘Role Models’, an organisation which supports children to be resilient and creative problem solvers.
Louise has a degree in Psychology, 12 years’ experience as a teacher and 5 years as a Senior Deputy Head at a London Prep school. She now works as a qualified coach working 1:1 with adults, teenagers and children to help them move forward with specific goals, explore limiting beliefs and develop their direction and confidence.
‘Role Models’ has a programme of life skill courses for children age 5-11. Louise has developed this programme with new and exciting ways to help children explore the four key areas of resilience, leadership, creative problem solving and collaboration, in order to be the best version of themselves and reach their potential.
In this episode we look at how to manage children’s worries, what modelling parents need to do, and how to help your child focus on positive conversations, talking about what’s in or out of one’s control. We talk about the importance of the ‘soft skills’ for children and also for ourselves as adults have to cope with transition too. We all have feelings about returning to school that we may need support with.
Listen to this episode with Louise if you want to learn:
- What ‘character education’ is (as defined by the Department for Education)
- Why parents should focus on positive conversations about going back to school and not project adult feelings onto the children while allowing children to express any anxieties they may have. (Emotion coaching will be a familiar skill for regular Parent Practice Podcast listeners)
- Talk to children about what they can control and what they can’t and put their energy into the former
- About the worry box and how that can help children, and adults, to compartmentalise their worries and preserve energy for other things
- How vital adult support (from parents and teachers) is for children right now to look after their mental health(especially 5-11 year olds because they are developing crucial skills in this age group)
- About what might be difficult for children to cope with on return to school, including socialising, and how we can prepare them for that:
- How allowing an adjustment period might be what your child needs
- Acknowledging feelings of overwhelm and anxiety about separation from family, and having simple strategies like a note in the lunch box or have a matching drawing on both parent and child’s wrist that each can look at
- Helping your child Identify 3 things to talk to friends about
- Reminding them that communication is just as much about listening as speaking –preparing some questions might be helpful
- Developing rituals of connection on their return home at the end of the day
- Using love-bombing
- How Role Models workshops for children can help them build resilience, leadership, creative problem solving and collaboration through experiential learning techniques, including helping a child really develop a growth mindset around challenging problems
- How it helps to teach children to identify what learning zones they are in for different activities, about neuroplasticity and about the power of their thoughts in shaping their feelings and their actions
- How to help children feel they have more control over their own lives
- How helpful it can be to put structure and routines back in place sometime before school goes back, including practicing the school route which might allow all the feelings to be aired
Louise shares her top tip for preparing children to return to school and for them to be happy, confident and successful and a surprising uplifting moment that has come out of the past few months.
If you want to get in touch with Louise and Role Models check out the links below:
Links
Online: https://www.rolemodels.me/courses/online-learning/
Offline: https://www.rolemodels.me/courses/day-courses/
Role Models website:
Michele Borba - Raising empathetic children in an all-about-me world TPPP33
The Parent Practice Podcast
07/03/20 • 43 min
There is no doubt that in this era of the Covid-19 pandemic there has been a huge amount of uncertainty and with that some anxiety. You may be feeling some anxiety yourself and perhaps your children are too. Well, the antidote to stress is empathy and our guest today has many, many ideas about how you can build empathy in your children.
Dr. Michele Borba is an educational psychologist and former classroom teacher who is recognised globally as a parenting, bullying and character expert whose aim is to strengthen children’s empathy and resilience, and break the cycle of youth violence. She is an in-demand speaker who has delivered keynotes and workshops to over 1,000,000 participants and written 24 books translated into 14 languages as well as appearing frequently in broadcast and print media. We’ll put a list of Dr Borba’s books in our show notes rather than list them all here but the one that introduced me to her work, her latest, is Unselfie, Why empathetic kids succeed in our all about me world. I loved that this work is firmly grounded in science but also has many, many practical ideas about how parents can raise kids to be empathetic. Dr Borba has been writing another book during lockdown Thrivers, the surprising reasons why some kids struggle and others shine. I can’t wait to read it She is also a parent of 3 now adult sons.
Listen to this episode with Dr Michele if you want to learn:
- About the 3 factors present in a person’s upbringing that lead to a person developing altruism
- How an 8 month old baby can teach children a thing or two about empathy.
- About today’s empathy deficit and how that has arisen. Yes, technology does play a part. But there are a number of reasons including the way we parent. Ouch!
- About the extraordinary outcomes when parents take active steps to teach children empathy and kindness
- That empathy is not just an innate quality that we are either born with or not, but it is something that can be cultivated even from an incredibly young age
- How empathy can be the antidote to stress, both your children’s and your own and how learning emotional regulation can help in times of uncertainty
- About how empathy is made up of habits. You can encourage emotional literacy and help your child develop a moral identity. Family mission statements can help a child to define themselves as a caring person. So can praise provided it is used to identify moments of caring in your child’s behaviour, since what we notice in our children is the behaviour we prioritise
- How parents can encourage children to understand others’ perspectives through role play, theatre, film and literature. Encouraging children to read widely through family reading rituals will help them develop empathy
- How some aspects of conventional discipline methods (yelling, time out, spanking) get in the way of a child developing empathy. (For more detail see our positive discipline module in our six week course)
And her top tip for raising children to be kind and tolerant adults who will create a better future for us all. It’s a very simple idea. And her idea for encouraging hope in difficult times is inspiring.
If you want to get in touch with Dr Michele check out the links below:
Links
Website: https://micheleborba.com.
For a full list of Michele’s books see https://micheleborba.com/books/ and look out for her new book next year ‘Thrivers’
Twitter: @michelborba
Ted talk -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVTiplEG91s&feature=emb_logo
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/drmicheleborba
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drmicheleborba/
Elizabeth Fletcher - Parenting Apart in Lockdown TPPP28
The Parent Practice Podcast
05/29/20 • 38 min
Right now every couple relationship is being stress-tested. Being forced into close proximity with your other half 24/7 and with other possible anxieties around work and finances and child care and education and concerns about your own and others’ health may mean that cracks are developing. If your relationship was already under strain before the arrival of this coronavirus it may have reached breaking point now. If you’re listening to this particular episode presumably you have an interest in helping children deal with the breakdown of a relationship, whether that is something that has already happened or is imminent.
My guest today can help with that. She is Elizabeth Fletcher, a director of Family Law in Partnership and she has a lot of experience working with individuals whose relationship with their partner has broken down and all the emotional upheaval that brings with it for the adult and the children of the relationship. She is very familiar with the problems that come with the end of a relationship where children are involved and guides people through this difficult time with empathy and integrity.
She is also a mum to two young children herself.
Listen to this episode with Liz if you your relationship has reached the end of its road or you are already separated or divorced from your partner and you want to learn:
- How to manage the stress of relationship breakdown when it is compounded by the restrictions of lockdown and possibly being still under the same roof as your estranged partner
- How to manage communication with your partner. Top tip: verbal communication is often more nuanced than the written word
- What to do if there is physical or other abuse in a relationship, especially if you are living with an abusive partner (for information about reporting abuse click here)
- What help to get if you are subject to coercive control by a partner
- What remedies are available under the legal system and through other support agencies to help with these situations
- About 7 ways to support your children through the trauma of family break up: (see here for details of the Parenting after Parting 3 part workshop developed by TPP in partnership with FLiP –the next series commences on 2nd July)
- Understand and get support for your own emotional needs
- Understand your children’s needs and reactions at different stages of development
- Empathise and provide a safe space for children to express their emotions
- Reassure the children that the end of the relationship was nothing to do with them and that neither parent will ever stop loving them
- Support the children to have a positive relationship with both parents
- Provide the children with many messages that they are valued
- Provide safety and support at home
- About the basic rules for contact during lockdown, and otherwise, and what happens if these rules are infringed
- How mediation can help (even during lockdown) when parents are having trouble communicating and finding solutions to parenting arrangements
- What to do when communication is really problematic and how to make use of technologies like Our Family Wizard https://www.ourfamilywizard.co.uk
- How to manage differing points of view about how to deal with the lifting of restrictions
- What the rules are on moving with a child or taking a child out of jurisdiction and what recourse parents have if they disagree with their partner’s position on travel
And as usual we finish with our SUMs. Liz shares with us a Surprising Uplifting Moment, one good thing coming out of this crisis, concerning her daughter’s involvement in an online disco party.
Links:
Website: www.flip.co.uk
Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/company/family-law-in-partnership/ see their post about kindness in divorce
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/familylawinpartnership
Twitter: https://twitter.com/FLiPLtd
Podcast: https://www.flip.co.uk/news-resources/our-podcasts-and-videos/
Free helpline on children and parenting law and domestic abuse https://www.flip.co.uk/free-children-and-parenting-law-domestic-abuse-advice-line/
Individual counselling support for those going through separation
Victoria Bagnall -Executive Functioning - TPPP30
The Parent Practice Podcast
06/12/20 • 43 min
Do you have a child for whom there is a disconnect between level of intelligence and academic performance? Do you have a teen who has issues with time management, who can’t get up in the morning? Maybe you’ve even got a young adult who is struggling now that the scaffolding of school has been taken away and they’re trying to manage on their own at university. Do you have a child with a diagnosis of ADD or ADHD or any other neurodiverse condition? Chances are he has executive function challenges.
To function in the 21st century with everything we’re juggling we need to have finely tuned executive functions; we need to be able to manage our time, to control our emotions and we have to keep track of our belongings. Just now when everyone has been having to adapt to lockdown and deal with anxiety we’ve had to call on cognitive flexibility and we’ve had to really reign in our limbic systems. We need to slow down and give ourselves a break and let our executive functions help us out.
Victoria Bagnall is an education professional passionate about improving opportunities for people with executive function challenges. She is the Co-Founder and Managing Director of Connections in Mind. She has recently launched an online learning platform www.cimlearning.com as part of her EVOLVING MINDS, EVOLVING TIMES initiative.
As a dyslexic Victoria was challenged with her executive functions and so her mission to help with this is a personal one. She trained as a teacher and then in SEN teaching. Victoria is also a mum of 3.
Listen to this episode with Victoria if you want to learn:
- What executive functioning is and how it operates like an air traffic control system for our brains, being responsible for executing tasks all day and controlling our instinctual responses to the world
- What is grit or goal directed persistence or resilience
- How executive functioning can help with organising thoughts on paper and writing essays
- How before neuroscience had really developed in this area deficiencies in output were attributed to character flaws like laziness or not being willing to try
- What are the signs of challenges with executive functioning – eg differences between verbal abilities and what the child can get down on paper
- How academic challenges can really affect a child’s identity
- Where executive function challenges come from and what role environmental factors like sleep, nutrition and stress levels have
- What parents can do to help children with EF challenges like initiating a task and sustaining attention
- Task initiation difficulty can be to do with fear of exposing a lack of ability so parents can help a child feel more relaxed about failures
- What role routines and expectations play
- Being able to sustain attention is to do with motivation and parents can help to motivate their children through breaking tasks down and using rewards and acknowledgments and using praise effectively (see TPP’s module on DP in our positive parenting courses)
- How important it is to give children autonomy in developing EF
Victoria really recommends Smart but Scattered Teens by Richard Guare PhD, Peg Dawson EdD, and Colin Guare.
Victoria finishes with a very profound tip for parents in raising happy and successful children, whether they’ve got EF issues or not. She also shares a Surprising Uplifting Moment with us as she has turned to gardening to cope with the stresses of lockdown and what she has learnt from that.
Links:
New online learning platform www.cimlearning.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/connectionsinmind/
Linked in: www.linkedin.com/company/connections-in-mind-ltd
Have a look at Victoria’s free questionnaire about executive functioning together with some suggestions for what to ...
Juliet Richards - Navigating Anxiety TPPP35
The Parent Practice Podcast
07/17/20 • 44 min
We are all aware that anxiety is a growing problem amongst our littlies, our tweens and our teens, and a recent Bristol University Longitudinal study ( ALPSAC) has identified that anxiety amongst our young people, children and teenagers has risen over the past 3 months of the pandemic from 13% to 24% during the crisis. So this podcast helps parents understand it and most importantly gives some top tips re what can be done to manage anxiety, reduce stress and how to respond to it.
Our guest today is Juliet Richards, who has been part of the facilitation team here at The Parent Practice since 2008, after taking our Positive Parenting Course in 2004 and then the Train the Trainer course in 2008. She’s also a school governor and is the safeguarding lead in a private girls school in London.
After her training with The Parent Practice, she realised what an impact the techniques and ideas were going to have on her family and others. Creating a positive atmosphere, and seeing how she could help them behave well and find their way in the world, was very different to feeling her responsibility was simply to keep them out of trouble. As her sons have grown, the parenting skills have continued to enable her to feel that she is on the same side as her boys and her and her husband are able to actively pass on the values that they feel are important
She leads our HARMONY AT HOME 6 week course and Zoom webinars on a variety of topics and is an adept facilitator with a clear, empathetic and humorous style.
In this episode we look at how to spot anxiety, how to understand it and most importantly how to teach your children to deal with it
Listen to this episode with Juliet if you want to learn:
- How challenging it is to parent, and how easy it is to feel isolated and scared when you as a parent may be anxious.
- How parents can empower their children by starting to understand themselves and equipping themselves with positive parenting skills
- What anxiety is? What is developmentally normal?
- How to deal with anxiety and know when to intervene and not escalate and catastrophise and heighten the situation.
- The idea that prevention is better than cure
- The importance of modelling and how contagious anxiety is
- How important it is for schools to support parents by delivering parenting workshops on topics such as anxiety
- How our brain works in terms of the ‘Worry Brain’ and the ‘Smart Brain’ as defined by Tamar Chansky
- The importance of being an emotion coach for our kids and enabling them to talk to us about their fears and worries
- How useful a worry box can be for children to download their negative thoughts and how to set up chatty time on the sofa as a daily ritual to allow children to worry openly
- The importance of teaching your children calming techniques as part of everyday life
Juliet shares huge vulnerability with one of her low parenting moments where she says to her boys, she no longer wants to be their Mummy and she shares that the greatest gift we can give our children is to look after ourselves and our own happiness.
If you are interested in doing a 6 week Harmony at Home course or a webinar on anxiety or booking a school workshop, check out the links below
Links
Harmony at Home Course and Webinars with The Parent Practice
https://www.theparentpractice.com/events-calendar
School workshop to support parents
https://www.theparentpractice.com/programmes/parenting-workshops-in-schools
Books
Alicia Eaton -First Aid for your Child’s Mind
Tamar Chansky - Freeing your Child from Anxiety
Lawrence Cohen - The Opposite of Worry
Resources
Place to be -https://www.place2be.org.uk/
Young Minds - https://youngminds.org.uk/
Child Mind institute -https://childmind.org/
Anxiety UK -https://www.anxietyuk.org.uk/
Caroline Ferguson - Escaping the Parental Guilt Trap TPPP25
The Parent Practice Podcast
05/08/20 • 35 min
Are you over the whole Coronavirus thing? We know you will be experiencing all sorts of feelings and one of them may be guilt. Your perfectionist instincts may be riding you to aspire to unrealistic expectations of perfect at home learning conditions, enriching activities for your children and perfectly baked sourdough bread while carrying out your own job in unfamiliar surroundings with less than perfect tools and resources with a partner who’s not usually under your feet. Do you feel guilty about losing your cool or nagging your kids or your other half? Do you feel guilty about how much time you can give to your children? Or how much time you’re allocating to your work? Do you feel guilty for complaining when you’re still well and you haven’t lost your job?
Caroline Ferguson is the perfect person to be speaking to in these conditions. She is a mindset trainer, speaker, coach and cognitive behavioural hypnotherapist who works with people to bring out their potential. She’s worked with hundreds of entrepreneurs and executives, teaching them how to embrace their own promise and ditch self-sabotage habits like thinking small, procrastination and imposter syndrome. Melissa credits her with getting rid of the negative self-beliefs she needed to write her book ‘Real Parenting for Real Kids’. It had been gestating for six years but Caroline helped Melissa have the mindset shift which helped it to come into the world! Caroline also delivers mindset talks and training to organisations, helping employees create a growth mindset and build the number one life skill of self-awareness
Listen to this episode with Caroline if you want to learn:
- Why some people beat themselves up and others don’t when faced with similar circumstances; tip: how it’s not the circumstances themselves but the beliefs we have about them that cause the feelings we have
- How unconscious beliefs like ‘I shouldn’t have to disrupt my child’s life...’ or ‘I should be able to keep my child safe...’ or ‘I should be able to attend to my child’s need for attention...’ are demands of ourselves or of the world which cause us to think ‘or else....I am a bad person/not good enough’ which cause feelings of guilt or shame or anxiety or anger or hurt
- How essential it is to challenge those beliefs by really tuning into them and becoming self-aware when we are out of equilibrium
- How many thousands of thoughts a day we have!
- How while we can’t change the circumstances we can change the way we think about them
- Why relentless positivity is not necessarily the best course. (What a breath of fresh air this pragmatic approach is!)
- How to rewrite the stories we tell ourselves that are causing us discomfort
- A structure that helps that rewriting of the ‘shoulds’ which helps dial down the emotion or change it to a feeling that you can manage
- How the big difficult emotions prevent us from accessing our adult pre-frontal cortex and our creative solution-focused brain and we get stuck in the feelings and once we deal with our feelings we are able to access our skills and resourcefulness (See our workshop on How to be a Calmer Parent)
- How setting boundaries and safeguards for ourselves will be part of the solution and encourage children to discuss their own boundaries
- About the Three Empowering Questions to ask when you feel stuck in challenging feelings to put you back in charge
- What am I demanding that is causing me to feel like this?
- What would be a good outcome in this situation?
- What can I do to make that good outcome happen?
And as usual we finish with our SUMs. It’s important, now more than ever, to not let anxiety drown out joy. To help us be grateful for the small things in life we are celebrating some Surprising Uplifting Moments, some good things coming out of this crisis. Caroline shares her own story about finding pleasure in adversity.
Links:
Facebook: Caroline Ferguson Mindset Trainer
Website: https://carolineferguson.com/ Do have a look at Caroline’s website for a self-awareness tool called PACES.
Alex Webb - Understanding self for future happiness and success TPPP32
The Parent Practice Podcast
06/26/20 • 43 min
Alex Webb is an experienced coach and facilitator, working with young people on an individual basis and in teams to become resilient leaders. Alex focuses on behaviour change, self-awareness and the understanding of self. Her belief is that if you understand yourself, you can then understand others, allowing you to adapt your behaviour to improve relationships. Her business is called Flying Start and she has been working with The Princes Trust to help young adults with leadership skills and confidence in their Future Leaders Programme. They help young people understand the future of work and how they can be flexible and thereby gain confidence.
Listen to this episode with Alex if you want to learn:
- What behaviour preferences are and how being able to make different behavioural choices increases our flexibility -leaving your comfort zone is easier in a safe environment
- How understanding yourself can help you to understand others
- How Colour-me profiling (a psychometric tool using colour to show behavioural preferences) can help you understand yourself and how you relate to others, including other members of the family
- How understanding behaviour preferences of others in the family can help you to realise the value they bring and to cultivate empathy as well as self-compassion
- How frustrations can arise from similar or different behavioural styles in work colleagues or family members
- How profiling that focuses on behaviours rather than personality types allows for more adaptability and more choice about how we’re showing up in different contexts
- About the C-me profiling, how it relates to extroversion/introversion and how it helps people understand their strengths and preferences, but also why an individual might struggle in certain situations, like lockdown!
- How understanding your child’s behavioural preferences allows you to do bespoke parenting for the children you’ve got
- How older children understanding their own behavioural preferences, and particularly their ‘native genius’ allows them to make better choices for their academic options and careers
Alex shares stories from her own life with her sons that highlight how understanding everybody’s behavioural preferences avoids conflict. She talks about Surprising Uplifting Moments from lockdown and like many parents has loved having time together as a family and to focus on self-care. Family Horrible Histories were a highlight! Alex also shares with us her number one tip for raising children with different needs and different ways of hearing things and understanding things.
Alex is offering a webinar for listeners of this podcast. Get in touch via the links below.
Links
Contact: [email protected]
LinkedIn: AlexWebb(neeSpring)
Website: www.tlrdynamics.com
C-Me website www.colour-profiling.com
C-Me are actually running a family offer at the moment, especially during lockdown, focusing specifically on family dynamics. You can each run a C-Me report based on how you behave at home and then use these to start a conversation about how you have different needs, strengths and focus. The cost is £50 for a family of 4 or £15 each so if you are a family of 5 it will be £65.
Susan Stiffelman TPPP3
The Parent Practice Podcast
10/18/19 • 38 min
Do you sometimes find yourself arguing and negotiating, explaining or rationalising with your child? Does it sometimes seem as if your child is running the show? Or have you found yourself unintentionally saying harsh things to your children or punishing, bribing or threatening them? Would you like to be lovingly, competently in charge at home?
Listen to this episode with Susan Stiffelman if you want to learn:
- How to make shifts away from being the controller to the guide in your family – the captain of the ship, rather than the lawyer or dictator. (See Susan demonstrate the different roles she describes here in this clip. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0_o5xvuRDE)
- How to have authentic power as a parent
- What are the four words not to use when you ask your child to do something
- How not to take things personally when your child behaves in ways you don’t like. Susan talks about our interpretation of our child’s behaviour causing us to get upset and get into power struggles. At The Parent Practice we know that it is our thoughts and assumptions about our child’s behaviour that causes us to see red. In our workshop How to be a calmer parent we look at how to reframe our assumptions about our children’s behaviour to help us stay calm and be effective.
- Why anxiety is on the increase in children today and several top tips to help children cope with anxiety. Susan talks about how to find the balance between allowing a child to express their worries and not fanning the flames of their anxiety.
In our celebration of vulnerability and perfect imperfection Susan shares with us ideas about learning, healing and self-acceptance arising out of Low Parenting Moments.
And you’ll enjoy her final tip for raising children to be confident, happy and successful: reflect on what you love about your child, what excites you and delights you about your child. Let them know. This is what Descriptive Praise is all about. Learn more in our positive parenting courses.
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The first episode of The Parent Practice Podcast was released on Sep 26, 2019.
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