How To Improve Communication with Kids (with Ned Johnson)

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Edit Your Life Show

Society & Culture

4.6 • 530 Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Finding the right words to say is one of the ongoing challenges in parenting. Christine chats with Ned Johnson, co-author of the recently released "What Do You Say?: How to Talk with Kids to Build Motivation, Stress Tolerance, and a Happy Home." Ned and Christine talk about communication challenges in the time of the pandemic, empathy pitfalls, the power of no-force, stress tolerance, and more. Edit Your Life is an award-winning podcast that shares practical ideas for decluttering your home, schedule, and mental space without getting bogged down by perfection. Visit edityourlifeshow.com for show notes and to connect with host Christine Koh. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Edit Your Life podcast. I'm Christine Co.
0:09.7	And I'm Asha Dornfest, and we're here to help you edit the unnecessary from your life so you have more room to enjoy the awesome.
0:16.6	We share practical ways to declutter your home schedule and mental space without getting bogged down by perfection.
0:22.4	And we believe that baby steps are the key to getting there.
0:26.7	Hello, edit your life friends.
0:28.1	This is Christine here.
0:29.5	And I have possibly the world's most delightful guest on the line today.
0:34.0	Ned Johnson.
0:34.8	Hi, Ned.
0:35.8	You need to get out more Christine. But thank you for that. That's very kind.
0:41.1	Well, Ned, I do want to say that you are one of these people who I have had the delight
0:47.5	of connecting with during the pandemic. So we have never met in person. And I feel deeply connected to you because we've had so many zooms together through this little author group we have.
1:00.8	And it just means the world to me.
1:02.8	You are a wonderful human being.
1:05.0	And I'm just so thrilled to talk to you about the book that you have coming out.
1:08.1	Or by the time this goes live, it will be out.
1:10.7	Yeah, well, thank you for that. You know, one of the things without going into coming out or by the time this goes live it will be out yeah well
1:11.0	thank you for that you know one of things without going into details um that this the parent
1:15.1	this parenting squad group i feel like it's a in part of it has been a it's kind of a therapy
1:20.1	session and both you and i have shared some hard stuff heavy you know intimate stuff that uh we it's not for today's consumption, folks.
1:31.3	You know, and that's one of the really important lessons from our book is that people become
1:37.4	closer to one another by sharing hard feelings with each other.
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