#184: Designing Developmental Playspace & 3-Year-Old Major Meltdowns
Parenting Beyond Discipline
Erin Royer, MA Clinical Psychology, Child Development Specialist
4.4 • 631 Ratings
🗓️ 5 June 2020
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
A mom asks about some major meltdowns from her 3 year old that go on for 20-40 minutes over small things, like food breaking. She's tried play therapy, making sure physically all is ok. She has no idea what else to try. She turns to Erin for any additional tips for helping her daughter with her emotional outbursts. But first Erin answers another mom's question looking for some tips about setting up a developmental play space for children, infants through 8.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Your Village podcast, Parenting Beyond Discipline. |
| 0:08.0 | Your Village is the most comprehensive site for evidence-based parenting classes available on demand. |
| 0:15.0 | At Your Village online.com. |
| 0:18.0 | 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. |
| 0:30.3 | My goal is to help parents support their children in finding and reaching their own unique potential. |
| 0:37.0 | The podcast is a place to learn about all things parenting |
| 0:40.1 | and get your questions answered. I'm your village founder and your host, Erin Royer. I have a couple |
| 0:47.6 | of great questions and the first one is great. It's a new one about how to design a developmentally stimulating play space. |
| 0:57.0 | Another class on my list for quite some time that I am going to get too soon. I have an outline for it, so I'm going to pull from that. |
| 1:03.0 | So today, I'm going to share some general guidelines from that outline for that class. |
| 1:08.0 | The second question is about some pretty big, long screaming meltdowns and what to do. |
| 1:15.4 | So I'm really excited that our growth mindset class that I have also added the topic of perfectionism into that class |
| 1:23.3 | because it overlaps with the growth and fixed mindsets in specific ways on each of those. |
| 1:29.0 | So I thought it was a good topic to put into that class as well. |
| 1:33.7 | We're now in the editing phase for this class, so it will be coming out next week. |
| 1:38.3 | I talk about what a growth versus a fixed mindset is, what perfectionism is, what it looks |
| 1:43.8 | like, how it overlaps with each of the |
| 1:46.1 | mindsets, and as well as how it's different. Some research on growth and fixed mindsets and what |
| 1:51.9 | parents can do to support their child or children in cultivating a growth mindset because it |
| 1:58.1 | doesn't happen by osmosis. Research is finding that even parents with a growth |
| 2:03.0 | mindset have to teach their children a growth mindset. They don't seem to pick it up just by it being |
| 2:08.6 | modeled for them. So I've gotten a lot of interest in this one over the last many months, so I'm |
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