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The three keys to peaceful parenting:
- Regulate your own emotions:“Our ability to self-regulate might have the biggest impact on who our child turns out to be compared to anything else we do”
- Connect with your kids
- Coach instead of punishing
Farnam Street • Dr. Laura Markham: Peaceful Parenting [The Knowledge Project Ep. #52]
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When your child has an outburst:
- Take a deep breath and acknowledge your own feelings
- Remind yourself there’s no urgency
- Remind yourself that the child is just experiencing a feeling and it’s not permanent
- Remind yourself that the child is actually allowed to have feelings
- Just be curious – you don’t have to jump in with a solution
Farnam Street • Dr. Laura Markham: Peaceful Parenting [The Knowledge Project Ep. #52]
“We need to model calmness. We have to be regulating our own internal states first before we expect our children to learn to regulate theirs