Helping Your Child Clean Up Their Mental Mess with Dr. Caroline Leaf

Parenting Beyond Discipline

Erin Royer, MA Clinical Psychology, Child Development Specialist

Education, Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Parenting, Kids & Family

4.4 • 630 Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Life is messy. As we deal with life, our minds are often messy too. How do we teach our children the tools to deal with the messiness of life? Dr. Caroline Leaf explains why just helping kids learn to connect with feelings isn't enough and introduces us to the 5 steps we can use and teach our kids when life presents us with difficult situations.

Dr. Caroline Leaf is a communication pathologist, audiologist, and clinical and cognitive neuroscientist specializing in psychneurobiology and metacognitive neuropsychology. Her passion is to help people see the power of the mind to change the brain, control chaotic thinking, and find mental peace. Since the early 1980s, Dr. Leaf has researched the mind-brain connection, the nature of mental health, and the formation of memory. As a highly sought-after expert on mental health, she is the host of the top-rated podcast, Cleaning Up the Mental Mess. Dr. Leaf is also the author of several bestselling books, including Cleaning Up Your Mental Mess, How to Help Your Child Clean Up Their Mental Mess among others.

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0:00.0	We need to empower our children to understand how to manage their minds, how to understand their minds and how to have the tools to be able to tell these story.
0:07.4	So instead of telling them that there's something wrong with them if they feel sad or angry or telling them that they're wrong or tell them not to cry or whatever,
0:14.3	it's actually understanding if there is a pattern change in the child, if they're suddenly not sleeping and they're very emotional and they are complaining
0:22.1	of sore stomachs and they just don't want to go to school anymore. You know, there's a change in
0:26.0	your child. There's a reason. The way your child's showing up is not just some random thing.
0:31.4	It's not who they are. And if we can understand that concept of understanding how to recognize
0:37.2	those signals in your child and how to teach your child how to recognise those signals in your child and how to
0:38.7	teach your child how to recognise the signals in themselves. You're equipping them with the
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