#72 - From Power Struggles to Problem Solving: How to Foster Positive Behavior in Your Kids with Kim Hopkins from Lives in the Balance

A Dad's Path

Will Braunstein

Parenting, Kids & Family

5 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of A Dad's Path podcast, Will Braunstein speaks with Kim Hopkins, Director of Outreach at Lives in the Balance, about Collaborative & Proactive Solutions (CPS), an evidence-based model of care for children. Kim talks about how CPS helps caregivers identify the problems that cause children's behaviors and collaboratively solve them.

The importance of addressing and understanding the root of challenging behaviors
Moving away from adversarial parenting
Fostering self-sufficient kids
The three-step model for solving problems with children
Differences in parenting approaches between co-parents and how to address them
Kids' desire to do the right thing and the role of skills in motivation and behavior.

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0:00.0	Hi, and welcome to a Dad's Path podcast.
0:04.6	We're real dads solving everyday problems.
0:07.1	Each week we tackle issues that dads everywhere face and deliver actions you can take right
0:11.0	away.
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0:16.8	exclusively for dads.
0:18.7	Our goal is to help you make fatherhood count, Dad all.
0:33.7	Hello and welcome to another episode of a dad's path podcast.
0:37.4	I'm Will Bronstine.
0:38.4	Today we're here with Kim Hopkins.
0:40.7	She's the director of outreach at Lives in the Balance and she's a trainer in the model
0:44.4	as well, which we're going to talk about.
0:45.9	The model is called collaborative and proactive solutions, CPS.
0:50.1	It's an evidence-based model of care that helps caregivers focus on identifying the problems
0:54.5	that are causing the behaviors and kids, and solving those problems collaboratively, proactively.
0:59.2	Their tagline, I think this is really helpful, at least for me, is where compassion and
1:02.6	science intersect.
1:04.3	Welcome, Kim.
1:05.3	Thanks for joining us.
1:06.3	Thanks for having me.
1:07.3	Really happy to be here.
1:08.3	That's fantastic.
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