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Welcome to Raising Good Humans. I'm Dr. Elisa Pressman and today I am excited to have

Claire Learner back. She just wrote her first book, Why Is My Child In Charge? A Roadmap to

End Power Struggles, Increase Cooperation and Find Joy in Parenting Young Children.

We're going to go through her Roadmap by walking through eight mindset shifts that can really help

parents cope with more challenging behaviors and use really specific examples that hopefully

you can translate for any situation that you're in. If you enjoyed this episode, please write a

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And as always, please DM me your questions on Instagram at Raising Good Humans podcast.

And you can also email me. And hopefully I will get to your questions either on a bonus

episode through Instagram videos or other exciting ways to reach you.

So you frame this book by picking out specific parenting mindsets that can either be a trap

or you can shift to support your relationship and your child's behavior and all the things

that we're looking for. And I'm going to let you correct me on the child's behavior comment

because that's one of the points of all of this. So people can be at the edge of their seat

on that one. Can we go through? But I'm so happy you're here to explain everything. And I think we

should just dive into the mindsets. Okay, I love that. Let's cut to the chase. And I think just one

framing thing I would say is that I never set out to write a parenting book. There are so many

excellent parenting books out there. The reason I chose to do this is because I had these

aha moments. I would say when families came to see me with like the bread and butter, right?

Power struggles not cooperating in the morning coming in and out of the room a million times at

bedtime, you know, having tantrums about, you know, turning tablets off. As we started to unpack

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