Peaceful Parenting: Dealing with Tantrums

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Kate Garlinge

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🗓️ 21 October 2020

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Most parents would not describe living with a toddler during Covid as peaceful, but there are ways to invite more calm into your home and limit the shouting. Host Jessica Rolph welcomes Psychologist Dr. Laura Markham to today’s episode. In her work as a coach with thousands of parents all over the world, Dr. Laura describes her approach as “peaceful parenting”. Who doesn’t want more of that? Learn why responding to tantrums with empathy can be a game changer.

Dr. Laura is the author of Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids: How To Stop Yelling and Start Connecting, Peaceful Parent, Happy Siblings: How To Stop the Fighting and Raise Friends for Life, and now her latest book, The Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids Workbook: Using mindfulness and connection to raise resilient, joyful children and rediscover your love of parenting.

Key Takeaways:

[1:35] How to be a peaceful parent during tantrums.

[4:32] Teach your toddler that big feelings are not dangerous; show them they are safe.

[5:45] How to let go of your concerns about being judged by others when your child is having a tantrum.

[8:25] What does a peaceful parent do when a toddler hits?

[12:12] When your child gets aggressive, demonstrate how to express feelings in a more acceptable way.

[12:47] Dr. Laura explains why rough housing leads to the release of oxytocin.

[14:46] Best practices for sharing peaceful parenting concepts with a spouse or other caregiver.

[17:27] Why empathy is a cornerstone for peaceful parenting.

[19:10] Why it’s important to acknowledge your child’s behavior as developmentally normal and realize this too shall pass.

[20:11] Jessica revisits the highlights of her conversation with Dr. Laura.

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Learn more about Dr. Laura at AhaParenting.com

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0:00.0	Parenthood is a time of so much change for you and your baby.
0:12.8	A little reliable information can go a long way towards making this new life a good life.
0:18.6	I'm Jessica Rolfe, and this is my new life, a love every podcast.
0:28.9	I don't know about you, but these past couple of months have been overwhelming ones for me.
0:34.5	Really excited to share my conversation with today's guest. She uses the term peaceful
0:39.4	parenting. Who doesn't want more of that? Here to help us bring more calm and less shouting into
0:45.6	our homes is psychologist Dr. Laura Markham. She has worked as a parenting coach with families
0:51.4	all over the world. She is the author of Peaceful Parent, Happy
0:55.8	Kids, How to Stop Yelling and Start Connecting. Peaceful Parent, Happy Siblings, How to Stop
1:02.0	the Fighting and Raise Friends for Life. And now her latest book, The Peaceful Parent, Happy
1:07.6	Happy Kids Workbook, using mindfulness and connection to raise resilient, joyful children
1:12.7	and rediscover your love of parenting. I cut right to the chase with Dr. Laura tantrums,
1:19.0	because after all, isn't that our greatest pain point as parents of toddlers? So Dr. Laura, tell me about
1:25.0	what it's like to be a peaceful parent through a really big emotional
1:30.4	moment for your toddler. Let's say that you've kind of reasoned with them as best you can.
1:34.4	You've reflected their feelings. You've gotten down on the floor with them. You've like tuned in.
1:39.1	But they're just really having a moment. What does that look like? What do you do?
1:43.7	Well, what it looks like is it's
1:45.4	loud and it's hard for them. And we don't have to have it be hard for us. But most of us,
1:53.2	it feels hard because we don't want our child to be having a hard time. And also it pushes our
1:58.9	buttons. We think, oh, if I were a better parent, this wouldn't be
2:02.6	happening. But you know, that's not true. Children are wired so that when something is too much
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