The Daily Dad

Try To Get To This Place

Nov 13, 2023

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The podcast explores the challenges of parenting, including dealing with kids who don't listen, engaging in power struggles, and worrying about the direction our children are heading. It emphasizes the need to shift perspectives and manage our own emotions while trying to teach and correct our kids.

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Shifting our perspective from focusing on what's wrong with our child to understanding what they are struggling with can help us effectively teach and reach them.

Recognizing that our kids are not intentionally trying to give us a hard time but are actually having a hard time themselves allows us to approach their challenges with empathy and understanding, resulting in less conflict and better cooperation.

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Shifting Perspective from Fixing to Helping

Parenting often thrusts us into situations that require us to solve problems or correct our children's behavior. However, we sometimes struggle to effectively teach and reach our kids, resorting to yelling or engaging in power struggles. In her book, 'Good Inside,' Dr. Becky Kennedy suggests that we should shift our perspective from focusing on what's wrong with our child to understanding what they are struggling with and how we can help them. It's also important to reflect on our own reactions and emotions in these situations, fostering patience and empathy for both our children and ourselves.

Challenges of Parenting and Shifting Perspectives

4min

The thing about parenting is that it’s always thrusting us into situations we have to deal with, we have to solve, we have to correct, we have to stop. Our kids aren’t listening. Our kids did something dangerous. Our kids failed a class. Our kids are drifting in a direction that worries us.

Of course, there are some parents who are oblivious to all this, just generally hands-off. But the rest of us, who are just doing the best we can, struggle with these situations. We don’t want to yell, but that’s what we end up doing. We want to teach and instruct, but it somehow devolves into a power struggle. We fail to reach them, fail to teach them.

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