Positive Discipline: More On Toddler Tantrums & Power Struggles

My New Life

Kate Garlinge

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4.7 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2020

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Opinions vary wildly when it comes to managing tantrums. From waiting out the storm, to taking a hard line. Whatever you do, be consistent! With so much advice, it’s easy to understand why parents panic when the tears start flying.

Jessica Rolph, your host, welcomes Positive Discipline Coach Jody Malterre, a master at bringing calm to every situation. Jody is a Montessori teacher trainer at Westminster College with over 30 years experience in Montessori education. She also sits on the board of the Positive Discipline Association.

Key Takeaways:

[1:39] What is Positive Parenting?

[3:02] Why do toddlers have tantrums?

[5:05] Why empathy works wonders — for children and adults.

[6:50] Other strategies to help your toddler move beyond the tantrum.

[9:52] How do you give your toddler a sense agency in their world?

[14:30] Jody shares tips for toddlers who stall with bedtime.

[16:00] Why routine and tools like bedtime cards work so well.

[18:08] Jody talks more broadly about positive discipline and how to shift into a positive discipline mindset.

[19:45] Jessica shares the highlights of a valuable conversation with Jody.

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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	Regular listeners of My New Life will remember a recent episode with Dr. Laura Markham.
0:35.0	She helped us navigate the thorny path of parenting a toddler through a tantrum.
0:39.8	Well, this topic was so popular with parents that were revisiting it. I, for one, can't seem to get
0:46.2	enough coaching in this department. If you turn to Google, opinions vary wildly when it comes to
0:52.3	managing tantrums, from waiting out the storm to taking a hard
0:56.3	line. Don't give in and above all be consistent. With so much advice, it's easy to understand why
1:03.8	parents panic when the tears start flying. Here to bring a much needed measure of calm to the
1:09.8	situation is Jodi Maltaire.
1:12.8	She is a Montessori teacher trainer at Westminster College with over 30 years' experience in Montessori education.
1:19.9	She also sits on the board of the Positive Discipline Association.
1:25.1	She's a master of applying positive discipline principles even in the most
1:29.3	challenging parenting moments. So Jody, a lot of us are really new to this concept of
1:35.6	positive discipline. Can you explain what it is? Yeah. You know, I think that it takes quite a mindset
1:43.2	shift to get in this idea of really what our job is, is to train our children, right?
1:48.8	To be their coach and coach them in social norms and social settings.
1:55.4	And when we hear the word discipline, a lot of times we associate that with punishment.
2:01.7	And punishment's really in this mindset of sort of like consequences and you kind of have,
2:07.0	you have to suffer a little bit, you know, and it tends to really keep us stuck in the past.
2:11.5	It keeps us stuck in this place of shame.
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