From Toddler to Teen – How Our Confident Leadership Fosters Resilience (with Susan Stiffelman)
Jun 11, 2018
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Susan Stiffelman, best-selling parenting author, discusses the importance of setting limits, handling tantrums, building emotional resilience, and the positive impact of confident leadership on children. They explore the balance of being calmly in charge, setting boundaries with love, and navigating children's emotions with compassion.
Being a calm and guiding presence fosters children's resilience and emotional development.
Embracing children's emotions and creating a safe space builds emotional resilience and growth.
Deep dives
Building Trust Through Responsible Parenting
Being a calm and guiding presence for children is highlighted as crucial in fostering their resilience and emotional development. The metaphor of being a captain of the ship emphasizes the parent's role in steering children through life's challenges. By maintaining a position of compassionate authority, parents can instill a sense of security in children, allowing them to experience and learn from disappointments and upsets, ultimately preparing them for adulthood.
Promoting Emotional Health Through Acceptance
Encouraging parents to embrace their children's emotions, even in moments of discomfort, is emphasized as a pathway to building emotional resilience. Appreciating and validating a child's feelings, rather than immediately searching for solutions, can lead to natural healing processes. The podcast advocates for parents to create a safe space where children can express and navigate their emotions, fostering emotional growth and understanding.
Reflecting on Parenting Challenges and Growth
Encouraging self-reflection and learning from parenting challenges are highlighted as essential aspects of personal and familial growth. Recognizing that perfection is unattainable, but striving to be a supportive and loving guide for children is emphasized. Apologizing and demonstrating vulnerability when mistakes occur can serve as powerful modeling for children, illustrating the importance of taking responsibility and maintaining boundaries out of love and respect.
Janet is joined by Susan Stiffelman in a lively conversation about setting limits, tantrums, what your children want versus what they need, emotional resilience, having compassion for yourself, and the positive effects your confident leadership has on children as they become teens and young adults. Susan is a best-selling parenting author (“Parenting with Presence,” “Parenting without Power Struggles”), a marriage, family, and child counselor, educational therapist, parent educator, and professional speaker.
For more advice on common infant/toddler parenting issues, please check out Janet's books at Amazon and Audible (https://adbl.co/2OBVztZ).
Also available for download, her audio series "Sessions" -- recorded consultations with parents discussing their most immediate and pressing concerns (SessionsAudio.com).
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