Dealing with an emotional child

Zen Parenting Radio

Todd and Cathy Adams

Education, Philosophy, Parenting, Self-improvement, Kids & Family, Society & Culture

4.8 • 636 Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2014

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

How do we react when our children have an emotional response? Yes, there needs to be some boundaries on how our children treat us, but we must also be aware of our own triggers and take responsibility for the energy we bring. We share a recent experience when our daughter had an emotional response (let's just say it wasn't handled perfectly). We also use the ocean as a metaphor to distinguish between fear and respect. The easier and quicker lesson is to teach fear, but is there a more effective way to communicate without passing fear down from one generation to the next? Do you want your kids to like you more? Ask them to teach you something you don't know. I did this last weekend when I asked my girls to tell me about "Frozen". They lit up because they loved sharing a part of themselves (and teaching me in the process). We also answer a few questions from some listeners whose partners have different parenting styles. We also talked about this in podcast our podcas titled "Are You On The Same Page As Your Spouse?" Want to win a $20.00 Amazon gift card? The Oscars are this weekend and we want you to "Play the Oscars with ZPR"courtesy of Be U, Inc. Simply subscribe to our podcast by clicking this link and we'll get you the instructions to play ASAP. Invite your friends to join!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCjWMFXdk-Y&feature=youtu.be If you shop Amazon by going through our website first (there is an amazon link on the bottom right hand of our home page), a portion of your sale will help fund our Be U program. Thanks for supporting us! Check out our new website & be sure to sign up to get all new podcast sent direct to your inbox @ ZPR. Todd's Men's Group as a few openings. Please email @ [email protected] for details. We would love to hear any comments from the show by sending us an email @ [email protected] You can be sure to hear more by liking our facebook page @ https://www.facebook.com/ZenParenting

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0:00.0	My name is Jack from Chicago, and this is Zen Parenting Radio, podcast number 164.
0:10.4	My name's Todd Adams.
0:15.2	This is Kathy Adams.
0:16.1	Welcome back to Zen Parenting Radio.
0:17.8	It's episode number 164.
0:24.8	And Zen Parenting Radio is a discussion between a spiritual and emotional mom.
0:39.3	That's you, sweetie. It is. And a logical and practical dad. That's me. We have three daughters, age of 6, 9, and 10. And our goal is to give you the resources to become a better parent. But more importantly, to become a better you. Don't forget, sweetie. The better, the best predictor of a child's well-being is a parent's self-understanding. I don't forget that. Do not ever forget that.
0:44.1	That is the essence of our existence. That's right. I feel like that's what everything we do or
0:51.4	practice or we're trying to create. Do do, do, do.
0:54.7	Do do, do.
0:55.9	Remember that part in Rocky 3 where Rocky's singing to Adrian?
0:59.0	It's not dodo, dodo, do, do.
1:02.7	All right.
1:04.3	So topics of this week, we're going to talk about respecting, the difference between respecting
1:09.1	the ocean and fearing the ocean.
1:10.9	Yeah, very different things.
1:12.5	And we're also going to talk about Greeley or Rabbit and how we have to respect his rabbitness.
1:17.7	Yes.
1:19.0	We're going to talk about our oldest daughter, J.C., who's going through some changes.
1:24.5	Well, I think we're going to talk about pre-adolescence.
1:28.3	Yeah, and she's going from being who she used to be to who she is going to be.
1:35.5	I know, but you just brought this up to me and you said, should we talk about this?
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