FlexiLingo
Punishment-Free Parenting and Teaching Kids to Handle Big Feelings
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Have you ever felt the urge to yell or hand out a punishment during a chaotic grocery store meltdown? It is a moment meant to stop the behavior fast, but what if it is actually turning off the exact part of your child’s brain that learns lessons? In this episode, I sit down with parenting author John Fogel to dismantle the massive misconceptions around discipline and childhood tantrums. John shares how traditional punishments backfire on our kids' nervous systems, and explains why our child’s biggest meltdowns are actually a cry for connection and emotional tools rath...
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It's literally get curious, not furious. It's how do we immediately pivot to curiosity about our kids' behaviors because they're almost always communicating a fundamental unmet need. A lot of times we just assume that kids are giving us a hard time when really what we're experiencing is them just having a hard time in our presence.
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Do that all the time. Today we're chatting about punishment free parenting. And remember, punishment is not the same as consequences and more on that later. Taking away screen time for a messy room that has nothing to do with the screen, a forced apology in front of grandma, putting your child into a dark room because you're upset at what they did,
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