Welcome to the Your Village podcast, Parenting Beyond Discipline.

Your Village is the most comprehensive site for evidence-based parenting classes available on-demand.

Our 50-plus classes give parents the foundation, steps, and tools for creating strong, healthy relationships with their children,

resulting in responsible, cooperative, happy, and successful children and families. My goal is to

help parents support their children in finding and reaching their own unique potential.

The podcast is a place to learn about all things parenting and get your questions answered.

I'm your village founder and your host, Erin Royer.

So because we're going through something very different and unprecedented, I'm going to

change focus to something a little different than usual and different than what I've heard

talked about anywhere.

Now, it's no secret we're currently living through some very uncertain times. And this has likely

made many of you feel anxious, irritable, fearful among many other mixed emotions and probably

some ups and downs. Advice and information about our current reality and even how to talk to your

kids about it abound. So I'm not going to talk about that. I'd rather talk about managing your

own emotions so that you can buffer your children from any anxiety and uncertainty as much as

possible. If your kids are anywhere other than home with you full time

without any access to any news anywhere, even background TV or internet, and you and your friends or

partner never make a peep or utter a single word or phrase about the current uncertainty,

then maybe, just maybe your child is completely buffered from

this. Other than that, every child over the age of two or even one is probably sensing some of the

uncertainty, even if they weren't quite understanding what it means. So this is not just a timely topic

for what's happening in the world right now, but for other times

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