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Welcome to Raising Good Humans. I am Dr. Aliza Pressman and today is a bonus episode

with listener questions and responses. But what's fun about today is that I am trying out doing

a live listener Q&A instead of reading them. So I have Zoe Winkler-Rinus who is a mom of three

and she has a four-year-old, a six-year-old, and a ten-year-old to give you a sense of the conversation.

And we are covering topics including dealing with different ages and play dates and how to and whether

to keep, for example, the ten-year-olds with each other and separated from the younger kids,

even if the younger kids want to be there. We're talking about what to do with a highly

sensitive kid who gets upset, disproportionate to what's going on and how to navigate that in a

sensitive way. We're talking about crying as a means to getting what you want. We're talking

about transitioning from a four-year-old coming into the bed at night to sleeping independently

and big feelings. If you enjoy this episode and the style of doing the bonus episodes in a live

conversation, let me know. You can always DM me or write them if it's nice as a review on Apple

Podcasts, DM me on At Raising Good Humans Podcasts. You can sign up for my bulletin. Draleza.bulletin.com

for premium subscribers. We're going to be doing live Q&As and the free subscription just has more

content that supports these conversations and you. I remember when the boys were little and

something would stress me out and parents would always say to me, other parents would be like

bigger kids, bigger problems and I would think that they were insane. It was so focused on sleep

and eating and are they pooping and the terrible twos or whatever. But I kind of get it because as

they're getting older, the questions and the decisions I make feel more important because they're

going to remember these decisions and I'm more, you know, where I could sort of be like,

no, the park is closed. I can't do that anymore. So those two years were kind of just a mess and

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