How to Manage Tiny Humans with Big Emotions with Alyssa Campbell
The Dad Edge Podcast
Larry Hagner
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 9 October 2023
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Alyssa Campbell is a teacher, parent, and an emotional development expert with a masters degree in early childhood education. She is also the author of the book "Tiny Humans, Big Emotions." In addition to her writing endeavors, Alyssa also runs a business and is a devoted mother to a two and a half-year-old. Her ethos revolves around the importance of building emotional intelligence in children. She believes in recognizing and regulating biases, looking beyond behavior for understanding, and fostering empathy in communication.
In this episode, Larry Hagner sits down with Alyssa Campbell. They discuss the challenges of balancing motherhood, running a business, and pursuing personal goals. Alyssa Campbell shares her excitement about expecting a baby girl and jokes about potentially having more children depending on their behavior. Larry relates by sharing his experience of having four boys and the reactions he receives from others.
Alyssa Campbell explains that she wrote a book called "Tiny Humans, Big Emotions" because she felt the need for more resources that focused on the adult's role in emotional intelligence. She found that many existing resources only provided strategies for dealing with children's behavior, without addressing the adult's own emotions and reactions.
Building emotional intelligence in kids requires parents to model and teach emotional regulation, empathy, and effective communication. It involves creating a safe and supportive environment where children feel comfortable expressing their emotions and learning healthy ways to manage them. Parents can also encourage their children to identify and label their emotions, validate their feelings, and help them develop problem-solving skills.
Recognizing and regulating our biases is a crucial aspect of building emotional intelligence in both children and adults. This episode sheds light on the biases that often go unnoticed and how they can impact our interactions with children.
www.amazon.com/Tiny-Humans-Big-Emotions-Emotionally
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| 0:00.0 | Emotional intelligence is the compass that guides parents on the journey of nurturing not just the minds but the hearts and the souls of our children that quote is 100% applicable for today's podcast. I think you guys will truly enjoy today's show for any of you guys who are dealing with little ones and and really really big outbursts maybe tantrums or or biting or hitting or punching or no I am not going to do that or just a battle an absolute |
| 0:30.0 | battle for control right parenting doesn't come with a manual but my guest today she has written a book that is truly helpful really excited for you guys to learn all about today's podcast all about today's guest and some of the strategies that we talk about today. |
| 0:46.0 | Welcome to the dad edge podcast the dad edge movement creates leaders of men leaders of families and leaders of communities we will not only impact this generation of fathers but the next generation as well. |
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| 2:40.0 | Okay for all of you guys including myself dealing with power struggles and temper tantrums and maybe hitting or biting or I don't want to go to school or I don't I don't want to go to bed in all these other power struggles that literally want to we want to pull our hair out. |
| 2:54.0 | I've got a treat for you guys today and her name is Alyssa Campbell now she goes by list but truly just a pioneer and the future of of being a more emotionally intelligent parent she truly believes that we're in the midst of parenting and parenting revolution. |
| 3:11.0 | That is radically changing the way we raise our kids and really gone are the days of minimizing emotions like don't cry you're fine don't make a big scene. |
| 3:22.0 | So those things really don't necessarily help certain situations maybe they're appropriate in some situations but the majority of the time they really aren't because as our understanding is developing and as our brains are developing in our little ones. |
| 3:37.0 | It has become increasingly obvious that today's parents are looking for new ways to help their children understand their feelings and learn to process them so we can actually get better behavior I'm going to say that twice. |
| 3:48.0 | So we can actually get better behavior this is not about coddling and this is not about enabling this is about using strategies that will actually allow us to be better parents and reduce the amount of poor behaviors that we don't want to see. |
| 4:04.0 | So Alyssa is an emotional development expert she's got a master's degree in this she also has a coaching service called the collaborative emotional processing method. |
| 4:16.0 | It's been a game changer for parents and she's recently written a book called tiny humans big emotions and it provides tools to tackle every day stressful things like child rearing situations such as what do you do in a child throws a temper tantrum she's going to talk at length about that. |
| 4:33.0 | Helpful scripts to handle any challenging moment like I don't want to go to school and I don't want to go to bed and what to do when your child hits or punches or bites also easy tips to help regulate your child's nervous system to help them give give themselves regulation tools and soothing tools and also how to anticipate how to anticipate and end meltdowns before they even begin. |
| 5:02.0 | All that and so much more I really enjoyed my conversation today with less as she goes by not Alyssa but you know that's her full name you guys will really enjoy today's podcast I know you will enjoy. |
| 5:14.0 | All right Alyssa what's going on welcome to the dad edge. |
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