Should You Break Your Own Rules? (And When)

About this episode

Foster and Cesar discuss a parenting breakthrough that highlights children's understanding and the dynamics of treating them as intelligent beings.

Foster and Cesar sit down for a lighthearted, intimate episode about a surprising parenting breakthrough. Together, they discuss how children actually understand more than we give them credit for, why the question "why?" exhausts parents (and what to do instead), and how treating kids like brilliant humans rather than irrational beings changes the entire dynamic. This episode offers a refreshing perspective on parenting fatigue, the power of contrary actions, and finding those small moments o...

People in this episode

Hosts: Foster, Cesar

Topics covered

• parenting
• child development
• communication
• family dynamics
• self-improvement

Keywords

• parenting
• children
• communication
• parenting fatigue
• contrary actions

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