Growth Environment for Kids: Part 1 Emotional Growth

Famous at Home

Josh + Christi Straub

Christianity, Parenting, Kids & Family, Relationships, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.8 • 667 Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

No doubt your child's world has been rattled in some way by the uncertain times we live in. How we respond to our child's big emotions now will set the stage for how they learn to manage those emotions and make decisions in crisis as they grow older. No pressure, right? In this episode, we provide hope and talk about five practical ways to create an emotional growth environment for your kids.

* Lead in grace, follow in truth* Talk about emotions* Celebrate your kids for who they are; don't mourn who they're not* Right your wrongs* Focus on who you're becoming

Show Notes:

The What Am I Feeling? children's book is a perfect way to help your kids label their emotions. Click here to purchase.

What to learn more about Emotional Safety in Parenting? To purchase Safe House: How Emotional Safety is the Key to Raising Kids Who Live, Love, and Lead Well, click here.

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0:00.0	John Gottman found in research that in his emotion coaching research that when you,
0:05.5	even if you get emotion coaching, this idea of getting into your children's worlds,
0:09.6	getting into their emotions, if you get it right just two out of five times,
0:12.7	that's 40% of the time. I like to joke that even Shaq shot better than 40% from the free throw line.
0:19.1	Like you can do this.
0:21.7	This is the best statistic that I've ever known.
0:24.4	If you get it right just 40% of the time,
0:26.6	you can still get the outcomes you're looking for in your kids.
0:29.7	You are listening to the Famous At Home podcast with Dr. Josh and Christy Straub.
0:35.5	Because when it's all said and done,
0:37.4	we all want to know that we were famous at home.
0:44.5	Welcome back to the Famous and Home podcast.
0:46.2	We are talking about a growth environment for our kids today because we have realized that
0:51.9	we're in the middle of COVID-19.
0:53.7	We're in the middle of social distancing., we're in the middle of social distancing,
0:55.8	and depending on where you are, what state you live in in the United States, what country you're
1:00.3	listening in from, your guidelines may starting to be relaxed and you may be getting out a little
1:08.1	bit more. We are talking about this because the mental health
1:13.4	ramifications of this are going to last for a while. And we want to make sure that we've created
1:18.0	an environment of safety for our kids. So today we're going to talk about an emotional
1:21.9	environment, creating a growth, an emotional growth environment for our kids. And then next week we're going to release one on the spiritual environment for our kids because
1:31.1	we have been seeing, and we're just going to be very bold about it.
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