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They Are Doing Their Job

Dec 5, 2023

04:13

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Explore the challenges of parenting and learn tips on handling difficult situations calmly while ensuring child safety.

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Children's challenging behaviors are normal and a way of expressing their feelings, and parents should focus on keeping their child safe while handling these situations calmly.

Parents need to understand that children's struggles, boundary testing, and occasional foolish behavior are part of being kids, and our role is to respond with love and affection while ensuring their safety.

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Understanding Normalcy in Parenting

Parenting involves dealing with various challenging situations with our children, such as tantrums, messes, and testing boundaries. It is essential to realize that all these behaviors are normal and expected for children. Dr. Becky emphasizes that parents should acknowledge their role in keeping their child safe while understanding that their child's behavior is a form of expressing their feelings. By zooming out, we can observe that children are doing their job of being kids, struggling, testing boundaries, and occasionally behaving foolishly. As parents, our job is to handle these situations calmly, holding firm with love and affection, and ensuring the safety of our children.

Understanding and Handling the Challenges of Parenting

4min

We’ve been talking about Dr. Becky’s wonderful book Good Inside recently (a must read!), and she has a great little section where she’s talking about a parent who ends up having to pick up and physically remove their child from a situation where they are hitting their younger sibling. There’s guilt and frustration and fear and so much that comes up in these situations.

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