Ep. 103 — Parenting Complex Kids Like a Coach: “Just tell me what to do.”
About this episode
The episode discusses a coaching approach to parenting complex kids, emphasizing self-control and understanding over control and judgment.
This episode starts in that place a lot of parents know too well. You want peace. You are tired. Your brain starts writing the worst possible future for your kid, and suddenly you are spiraling all the way to “homeless and shooting heroin into his eyeballs.” It is funny because it is so uncomfortably real. That moment when fear turns into judgment, and judgment turns into control, and then you are mad at yourself because you promised you were going to be the calm, positive parent. Michelle and Megan keep working through The Essential Guide to Raising Complex Kids by Elaine Taylor-Klaus, and this time the big idea is a coaching approach to parenting. Not controlling your kid, but teaching them how to take control of themselves, step by step, in a way that actually fits a complex brain. There is this underlying theme that people are not broken. They are creative, resourceful, and whole. And that sounds lovely until you remember you are also a person, and your own fear and old patterns are sitting in the front seat with you. Megan and Michelle brings in their coaching training and reframes what coaching really is. It is not having the perfect advice. It is listening, asking the…
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