Demands, Wild Behavior, and Parent Guilt

Respectful Parenting: Janet Lansbury Unruffled

JLML Press

Kids & Family, Parenting

4.7 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2026

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

A parent feels confused by her children's demands and wonders if her boundaries are too unclear. Another parent feels overwhelmed by her 4-year-old's emotional behavior at the preschool she opened at her home: "He's gotten increasingly unsafe, hitting, pushing, screaming, etc." She regrets she hasn't been able to be more trusting and acknowledges, "I know I'm putting an expectation on him that isn't fair." A third parent has been facing a series of personal hardships, and she worries that her sadness and anxiety are negatively affecting her child. Janet offers all three of these families what she believes is a helpful (though counterintuitive) healing path toward connection. Janet's "No Bad Kids Master Course" is available at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠NoBadKidsCourse.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠JanetLansbury.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Please support our sponsors! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:48.3	Fees applied to delivery orders subject to availability. Hi, this is Janet Lansfuri. Welcome to Unruffled. Well, today I'm going to be talking about, well, I have three
1:00.9	notes from parents here that I want to share with you and give commentary on or give some advice on.
1:08.6	I'm also thinking about something lately that really applies to what I'm doing here
1:14.2	on this podcast. It's this idea of there being some pat advice, some quick advice that I could
1:22.9	give to you or to the parents whose questions I'm going to share today that could just sort of fix
1:29.5	the whole situation, understand everything that's going on in that family and the dynamic
1:34.9	and how to figure it all out, and that I could possibly do that, especially with three families
1:40.1	in one podcast. It's not possible. And it's important for me to remind myself and remind you
1:49.2	that that's not what I'm doing here. I'm not trying to solve these people's issues for them
1:56.1	based on something they've written to me. Just this very introductory information that they're giving me
2:02.6	about what's going on with them. One thing that reminded me of this is as I'm writing my book,
2:08.8	I've been reading a lot of my mentor, Magda Gerber's writings. And she said, most of the mothers
2:16.2	who come and ask me questions questions ask me a special question.
2:20.3	What do I do when he bites me? She pulls my hair. It's impossible to diaper. And it's very
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