Episode 329: Parenting With Confidence Without Messing Up Your Kids with Wendy Snyder

About this episode

Wendy Snyder discusses effective parenting strategies that avoid authoritarianism while promoting healthy authority.

Send us Fan Mail What happens when you know the old “because I said so” parenting style isn’t healthy…but you also don’t want to raise entitled little tyrants? In this episode, parenting coach Wendy Snyder joins us for a deeply practical, heartfelt, (and hilariously honest) conversation about strong-willed kids, emotional regulation, yelling, boundaries, anxiety, and what healthy authority actually looks like in family life. Together, we unpack the difference between authoritarian, permissive...

People in this episode

Host: Sheila Gregoire

Guest: Wendy Snyder

Topics covered

• parenting
• emotional regulation
• boundaries
• authority
• strong-willed kids

Keywords

• parenting
• strong-willed kids
• emotional regulation
• yelling
• boundaries
• anxiety

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