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Respectful Parenting: Janet Lansbury Unruffled

The Joy of a Self-Entertained Toddler (Yes, It's Possible!)

Respectful Parenting: Janet Lansbury Unruffled

JLML Press

Kids & Family, Parenting

4.73.8K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2026

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

In a previous 'Unruffled' episode, a parent reached out to Janet with concerns about her then 8-month-old son's play . "If I leave the room, he stands at the gate and screams and cries, even if he can see me and we are chatting." She wondered, "Should I work on doing some exposure therapy, so to speak, leaving the room for short periods of time.. ?" Janet suggested a more organic, relationship-centered approach, and then had a back and forth with this mom. Now, nearly two years later, the mom has written back with an update describing her learning curve and her process.   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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Hi, this is Janet Lansbury. Welcome to Unruffled. Often when I share success stories, which I think are

1:00.5

very informative and a lot of parents tell me they are, there are always other parents who will

1:06.1

write to me and say, well, this just makes me feel worse because I wasn't able to do that. I'm not having

1:13.5

this success right now. I'm having a hard time. And there's sometimes this thought also that, oh,

1:20.1

well, that's that parent or that child that they have that's able to do that. But I couldn't

1:26.4

possibly do that. And what I've found, what I've

1:30.6

noticed when I've been able to dig deeper with parents is that it's really all about us understanding

1:37.2

the process and the perceptions we need to understand how to get there. And of course, incredible

1:43.8

patience with ourselves

1:44.9

because some aspects of parenting are going to be easier for us than others.

1:49.1

We all have our challenges and our journey.

1:53.1

In this case, the issue on the surface is independent play.

1:59.4

But success is also about so many other things, and that's one of the reasons

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