What Happened to My Sweet Child?

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What Fresh Hell: Laughing in the Face of Motherhood

Kids & Family, Comedy, Parenting

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Why do formerly-sunny kids turn overnight into little tornadoes of defiance and aggression? A listener posted this question in our Facebook group: My four-year-old daughter has recently developed a special, defiant, boundary-testing, aggressive version of herself that she saves only for me. I can’t make sense of it at all. WFH, send help! In this episode, we explain why these sudden onsets of periods of dysregulation are completely normal almost every kid will go through this—and a lot of four-year-olds, although not they do not have exclusive ownership of this sort of behavior and why most kids alternate between periods of regulation and dysregulation repeatedly as they grow and mature. These difficult stretches don't mean you're doing anything wrong as a parent. They don't mean you need to lock everything down because your kid will be a tornado forever. But they also don't mean mean you need to become the 24/7 punching bag for your dysregulated kid. Here's what to do instead. Here are links to some of the resources mentioned in the episode: Rebecca Onion for Slate: Why These Child Psych Books From the 1980s Are All Over Parenting Facebook Groups Today Allana Robinson for Mom Halo: Here's why your 4 year old's behaviour is out of control Uncommon Sense Parenting with Allana Robinson: What Exactly Is Stress? Louise Bates Ames: Your Four-Year-Old: Wild and Wonderful What Fresh Hell Podcast is going on tour across the Northeast US this fall! Join us for a live version of the podcast and bring all your mom friends. We can’t wait to go back on the road! https://bit.ly/whatfreshhelltour We love the sponsors that make this show possible! You can always find all the special deals and codes for all our current sponsors on our website: https://www.whatfreshhellpodcast.com/p/promo-codes/ mom friends, funny moms, parenting advice, parenting experts, parenting tips, mothers, families, parenting skills, parenting strategies, parenting styles, busy moms, self-help for moms, manage kid’s behavior, teenager, tween, child development, family activities, family fun, parent child relationship, decluttering, kid-friendly, invisible workload, default parent, kid behavior, child behavior Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	There are different modes of operation and outcomes for kids.
0:06.0	What fresh hell?
0:08.0	Laughing in the face of motherhood.
0:10.0	Don't feel guilty that your kid is nicer for your parenting partner than for you.
0:14.0	With Margaret Ables and Amy Wilson.
0:16.6	We are here from the future.
0:18.6	A podcast that solves today's parenting dilemmas so you don't have to.
0:23.2	Just when you figure it out, it'll change again.
0:25.2	Hey everybody, welcome to what fresh hell, laughing in the face of motherhood. This is Amy and this is Margaret and today we are discussing
0:37.6	What happened to my sweet child?
0:40.3	Sweet child of mine
0:44.0	Axel Rose was not talking about a four-year-old, apparently.
0:47.0	He was talking about maybe a two-year-old, maybe a seven-year-old, not a four-year-old.
0:51.0	Whatever he was talking about, it was before the changed darkness. It was before
0:55.4	the change. This is an extremely universal experience that all of us have had. I'm going to argue
1:00.1	multiple times with each of our children that something happens all of a sudden and
1:04.2	they're very dysregulated but this is a topic that came from Amy in our Facebook
1:09.5	group different Amy you're not ceding our Facebook group with questions.
1:14.0	An any group of women of a certain age is going to be at least two Amy's.
1:17.6	This is other Amy for this purpose of this episode.
1:20.1	And she went to our Facebook group, Facebook.com slash groups slash What Fresh Hellcast?
1:24.6	It's 7,000 parents talking about parenting,
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