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Today we are talking about how to not allow your children to use emotion to manipulate you, right?

I mean, so we talk so often about, you know, emotional health and helping our kids understand

emotion, but we also get the question a lot of, what if my children are learning to use

emotion to stay up later at bedtime because they're, you know, afraid of the dark, or there's

monsters under the bed, or whatever excuse they're coming up with tonight, or they're kicking you know, afraid of the dark or there's monsters under the bed or whatever

excuse they're coming up with tonight or they're kicking and screaming and protesting because

they don't want you to go on a date. What do you do when they're using that emotion to manipulate

you to get them to, to get you to do a behavior they want you to give into. And I think that's so often.

I mean, we grew up, like we learned this innately as we grow up.

We still do it as adults.

We use emotion to manipulate people.

It might look older as we get older as passive aggressiveness.

It might look like these underhanded comments.

I mean, we all know what it feels like when you know

you're being manipulated to change your mind or to do something you don't really want to do. And often,

people can get really good at it. But how do we do this with our kids? Because we're teaching them how to

treat other people in the world by how we respond to them. And like the example Josh

used, you know, going, trying to get away on a date night. How do we handle that when we know what

they want us to do? And yet we're trying to teach them your emotion matters to me. I validate the

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