Parenting challenges like handling children's intense emotions, aggressive behaviors, and tantrums are discussed. Strategies for staying composed, validating emotions, and setting boundaries are shared to help parents navigate these stormy situations
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Handling Emotional Storms
View children's emotional outbursts as storms that will pass.
Don't try to stop or fix the storm, but ensure everyone's safety and carry on.
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Child's Power and Parental Control
A child's sense of power over family happiness can be overwhelming.
Letting go of the need to control their emotions helps them feel safer.
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Reflecting and Hugging
Reflect your child's feelings back to them without judgment.
Offer hugs if you're available, but don't feel obligated to fix their mood.
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Our child’s uncomfortable feelings can manifest in many ways, the most obvious being tantrums, meltdowns, or long lasting monsoonal crying jags. Often, those feelings are expressed in behaviors, sometimes aggressive. The two emails Janet addresses in this episode come from parents whose kids’ rocky moods and behaviors are persistent, no matter how much patience, love, and affection are offered. One parent writes: “Sometimes his feelings are too much for us. It's hard when the entire day is ruined because you said no to a cookie at 7:00 AM.” Another mom says her 4-year-old has started spitting, biting, and hitting in pre-school. He’s recently acquired a baby brother, which explains a lot, but she says, “it would be easier if he was screaming and crying and having a meltdown. I can handle that, but when it comes out in a way that hurts others, I struggle.” Janet has several suggestions for these parents both in the way they are responding to their kids and in their perceptions of their respective storms.
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