The Best Response to Our Children's Turbulent Emotions

Respectful Parenting: Janet Lansbury Unruffled

JLML Press

Kids & Family, Parenting

4.7 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Janet responds to emails from parents who describe struggling with their children’s strong emotions. One writes that her 2-year-old rejects her comfort when he has a meltdown. “It breaks my heart, and I feel like I must be doing something wrong.” Another writes that her 7-year-old says he doesn’t feel love from his mother. Another email describes how a 3-year-old’s tantrums last all afternoon and into the evening, disrupting the rest of the family’s routine, and they “all feel trapped by a 3-year-old.” And a therapist observes that her child holds in emotions in front of family and peers. In this encore episode, Janet identifies the common thread in all these situations and offers a hopeful answer to weather the storms. Janet's "No Bad Kids Master Course" is available at ⁠⁠NoBadKidsCourse.com⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠JanetLansbury.com⁠⁠. Please support our sponsors! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:22.3	Hi, this is Janet Lansbury.
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0:28.2	Hi, this is Janet Lansbury. Welcome to Unruffled. Today I'm going to be talking about one of my all-time favorite topics. It's still a challenge for me after many years, and that is responding
0:35.6	to our children's emotions.
0:42.3	Our children's emotional life is behind almost everything,
0:45.1	every challenge that we have with them and their behavior,
0:47.1	difficulties in our relationship.
0:53.2	Helping our children get comfortable with the flow of emotions that they have throughout the day is key for them to be resilient, self-confident,
0:58.8	emotionally agile people.
1:01.2	And this is a gift we can give children
1:03.2	that so many of us didn't receive or didn't receive all the way.
1:08.6	And just on a practical level,
1:10.2	when we start to get used to
1:12.4	trusting feelings and letting them be and actually encouraging them to be, even the most
1:18.2	uncomfortable ones, then our life becomes a lot easier as parents. There is less intensity
1:25.3	in the emotions that our children express, less of the challenging behavior.
1:30.3	There's more of a sense of calm.
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