#332: The Do's and Don'ts of Teaching Healthy Coping Skills

Parenting Beyond Discipline

Erin Royer, MA Clinical Psychology, Child Development Specialist

Education, Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Parenting, Kids & Family

4.4 • 630 Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Healthy coping skills are the key to riding life's ups and downs, our resilience. Resilient people are happier, more self-confident, take more risks, and therefore achieve more goals. There are healthy (adaptive) and unhealthy (maladaptive) coping strategies. Most of us got unhealthy messages about how to cope when we struggled emotionally. Learn how to lead your children to healthy coping strategies they can adopt for life and which ones to avoid.

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0:00.0	So the next time that your child is upset, then you can say, we talked about this during a quiet
0:05.3	time.
0:06.0	This is what you choose.
0:07.0	Remember, you chose X, taking deep breaths, running around the couch.
0:11.4	I'm going to talk about these in a second.
0:13.2	But then you're going to invite them to that coping strategy so that they can go, oh, yeah,
0:17.3	I did.
0:17.7	Okay, I'm going to try that now.
0:19.0	Or they may not.
0:20.0	It may not go well. So you're going to cross those off your list for now. The next time, it's a quiet time, talk about
0:25.5	it again. Okay, we tried to work on those. Those didn't seem to quite connect with you. Let's think
0:29.7	of a couple of other ones that I can invite you to the next time. So we can find the right one for you.
0:41.7	Welcome to the Your Village podcast, Parenting Beyond Discipline.
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0:57.0	relationships with their children, resulting in responsible, cooperative, happy, and successful
1:02.8	children and families.
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1:09.4	potential.
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1:20.2	I'm your village founder and your host, Erin Royer.
1:22.6	Hello, everyone.
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