Developing Tools for Emotionally Regulated Parenting + Leading Strong-Willed Children | Wendy Snyder
Wendy Snyder is a mom of two, certified parenting educator & family life coach, who inspires parents to learn & grow through connection based positive parenting strategies. As the host of The Fresh Start Family Show & Founder of FreshStartFamilyOnline.com, she helps parents ditch the threats, yelling & harsh punishments so they can live life as a joyful & confident parent (with kids that listen & cooperate great!). And that’s exactly what Wendy covers in this episode! How we can respectfully parent, create kind connection, and even love our strong-willed children well. We hope this conversation blesses you and your family and gives you a few more tools in your toolbox to break the cycle of authoritative or reaction based parenting.
Episode Highlights:
How Fresh Start Family got started
Doing the work in the first decade
Learning to reparent yourself first
When you are very hard on yourself… you will be very good at being hard on your children
What does the emotionally regulated parent look like
Bravery in breaking the generational cycles
Putting blinders on from the watching eyes
Learning the power struggles + behaviors
What is a strong willed child + how to love them well
Nurturing their independent personalities for growth
Setting firm boundaries for littles
Standing on repetition when they “don’t get it yet”
Loving + firm discipline
Unpacking the toolkit for teaching over punishment
“Play is the road to a child’s mind”
What about hitting?
Having the village to support healing in parenting
Giving grace for kids to be kids
Sending shame packing
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