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#52 Dr. Laura Markham: Peaceful Parenting with

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

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Parents Don't Coach Their Child's Emotions

Why don't parents emotion coach? Why do they respond to their child's emotions with shame or punishment, or denial, or distraction? Parents get anxious when their kids have big emotions. They think emotions are dangerous. If parents can instead, train themselves to take a deep breath, remind themselves that the child is just having a feeling. Is not a permanent condition. The child's allowed to have feelings. That's part of how children develop unshakable self esteem and resilience - we allow them to have their feelings. It's by accepting all other feelings. We're one they haven't had modelling. Theydon't know how to emotion coch but there's something more important, and it

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