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Respectful Parenting: Janet Lansbury Unruffled

Meltdowns That Keep Happening, Even When We're Doing Everything Right

Respectful Parenting: Janet Lansbury Unruffled

JLML Press

Kids & Family, Parenting

4.73.8K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

A parent writes that she's feeling helpless and desperate about her 3-year-old's frequent, intense meltdowns, which sometimes last up to an hour. This mom says they usually "relate to control and power struggles where he tells me or my husband to do something." And although she remains calm, responds with empathetic words, assures him that it's okay to be mad, offers hugs, and tries to acknowledge his feelings, nothing seems to help. Often her responses seem to make him angrier. Understandably, she eventually loses her patience. "I will likely end up screaming at him because I literally can’t handle his screaming at me any longer, and then I feel the weight of the guilt for yelling at him..." Janet offers a slight shift in the parents' perspective and subtle adjustments they can make to their approach that she believes will help their spirited son move through his emotional flare-ups more easily.

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0:00.0

Hey, everyone. Before we begin, I just want to remind you to please check out my new

0:07.6

No Bad Kids Master course. You can find out all about it at NoBadKidsCourse.com.

0:14.6

Hi, this is Janet Lansfury. Welcome to Unruffled.

0:21.0

Today, I have a question from a parent that I received in an email and she's an amazing

0:27.8

parent, clearly. She's wondering what to do when she's responding to her child's upset

0:35.4

feelings in all these wonderful ways. And yet, he's still having these extended meltdowns

0:44.3

that end up making her upset. She says it's breaking her heart. I would love to help

0:50.6

her understand some nuances that might be missing here and how she can easily shift into

1:01.3

a role that will, I feel sure, help him have shorter meltdowns and less meltdowns.

1:12.5

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