Your Child Is Not Manipulating You | After Hours With Amanda Ep. 12
After Hours With Amanda
After Hours With Amanda
5.0 • 697 Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2021
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of After Hours With Amanda, I’m talking about responding instead of reacting when our kids have big feelings. We get into bedtime, Target tears, iPads, communication, boundaries, and why I’m trying to see crying less as manipulation and more as a tiny human asking for help.
I’m not sharing this as someone who has it all figured out. I’m learning in real time, apologizing when I need to, and trying to give my kids tools for their toolkit instead of shame for their emotions.
00:00 We Made It To Friday
00:41 McDonald’s Coke And Catching Up
02:36 Daddy’s Bed And Bedtime Chaos
03:53 Letting My Kid Be The Parent
06:24 When Kids Cry From Disappointment
09:30 The Target Toy Story
13:10 Reacting Versus Responding
16:10 Why First Responders Don’t Just React
18:07 Big Feelings Need Tools
21:12 Parenting Is A Human Relationship
23:23 When I Needed A Walk
24:32 Why We Hold Kids To Adult Standards
29:10 What If A Boundary Gets Broken?
31:30 The iPad Trust Conversation
38:57 Marriage, Miscommunication, And The Folder
43:33 Healing Your Inner Child By Responding Better
48:01 Responding Instead Of Reacting
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Well, we're here. I made it. It's Friday. Okay, it's Friday. I'm totally recording this and then posting |
| 0:05.8 | it. But we've made it through a week. The podcast is just like, you know, a couple days late. |
| 0:12.1 | But I feel like at this point, we're good enough friends where you understand, like this is just me. |
| 0:17.9 | I do my best and give God the rest like I tell my kids. You can only plan so much and then life just me. I do my best and give God the rest, like I tell my kids. You can only plan so much |
| 0:23.7 | and then life just comes and it makes decisions without. Oh, sorry, we forgot our intro. Hi, |
| 0:31.0 | welcome to another episode of After Hours with Amanda podcast, the podcast, kind of about parenting |
| 0:36.1 | and everything else, but not solely for parents where we're just going to talk about it all, the podcast, kind of about parenting and everything else, but not solely for parents |
| 0:38.6 | where we're just going to talk about it all. Musings, the classic Taco Bell Coke and Taco Bell. |
| 0:46.0 | How disrespectful. McDonald's Coke. Excuse me. I apologize to the people that work so hard on |
| 0:51.8 | this McDonald's Coke. I do love Taco Bell bean burritos, though, so no shame in that game. |
| 0:57.6 | On a side note, you know, I love food. |
| 0:59.5 | What have I been eating lately? |
| 1:01.5 | Ruben sandwiches. |
| 1:03.5 | Now, I know I kind of desecrate it by not putting Swiss cheese on it, which, frankly, |
| 1:08.3 | people can be offended by. |
| 1:09.5 | I understand. |
| 1:13.5 | But your girl has to, as I always say, |
| 1:20.5 | limit my dairy intake to what I really want to get in because it just, you know, since the kids, |
| 1:25.6 | there's been a little, you know, rumblings that aren't so great. But I have to tell you, |
| 1:30.8 | like I said, my goal is always to have this up on Wednesday so you can count on it and I try to be that person that people can rely on. But if you know me, you know that |
| 1:37.0 | sometimes I get a little behind, but I like to think my heart is in the right place. So without |
| 1:41.5 | leaving this week hanging, I have so many things I want to talk to |
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