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Modern Parenting Styles for the Millennial Adults to Parent Less With Laura Elpers Pierce

Summary: Do you want to teach your child a skill or lesson without having him feel bad? Do timeouts work?

What are their long-term effects when it comes to teaching kids values, particularly at a young age before their personalities have fully developed? The relationship you have with your child can shape the way they approach challenges and make decisions. By building a strong, supportive bond with your child, you can help them feel more confident and capable of handling difficult situations. Meet Laura Pierce, a licensed marriage and family therapist, play therapist, and infant mental health specialist. She primarily supports families with young children by educating and encouraging parents to develop a parenting philosophy that works for their family and promotes their overall well-being. In this episode, Laura and I offer several ways to manage your child's behavior without hurting your relationship with him. We also share a few tips on how to communicate effectively with your child so that he will be able to better understand and meet your needs.

Find out the benefit of choosing to approach discipline as a learning opportunity

Understand the importance of playfulness in managing your child’s emotions

Get to know how a child’s behavior can be a form of communication

The Five Relationship Mistakes You’re Making And What To Do About Them: https://www.millenniallifecounseling.com/the5relationshipmistakes

09:18 - Valuing the statement, "All feelings are okay, all behaviors are not."

11:47 - How certain behaviors are determined to be not okay

13:14 - The goal of the statement all feelings are okay

15:59 - An important thing for parents to keep in mind when it comes to misbehavior

17:31 - Explaining the concept of HALT 19:18 - How a child’s behavior can be a form of communication 22:13 - What does discipline mean? 23:39 - Using time-out and time-in 26:18 - The benefit of choosing to approach discipline as a learning opportunity 28:39 - Do not do for a child what they can do for themselves 30:32 - How to approach a situation in a relationship-focused manner 34:01 - Offering co-regulation with your child 37:43 - Using play as your main communication strategy 39:54 - Playfulness also helps manage your child’s emotions 43:37 - Integrating play to make your child feel more empowered and excited about doing something 46:42 - Making requests for your child can be an opportunity for him to learn 51:21 - Why having a sense of community is important 56:04 - Grownups never share secrets with kids

57:59 - Teaching your child to learn what it means to say I'm sorry 59:34 - Understanding the idea behind an approach is way more important than getting an approach right

“How you approach a situation is way more important than the situation itself.” - Laura Pierce

“However you decide to approach a situation is really rooted in your own ability as the grownup to self-regulate.” -Laura Pierce

“If we want to talk to our child, if we want to teach our child, a lot of times we have to use their language to meet them where they are. We have to be playful.”   - Laura Pierce

“When you have that mindset of relationship, learning, and growth, what you choose to say, or how you choose to approach any situation, doesn't hold as much weight because you know that this perspective is ultimately long-term beneficial for your family.”  - Laura Pierce

“Relationships are just a constant flow of harmony, disharmony, and repair.” - Liz Higgins

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