About this episode

Lisa discusses maintaining a calm exterior as a parent and addresses listener questions on child behavior.

#186 In this episode, Lisa discusses her thoughts on keeping a calm exterior as a parent. She covers body language when it comes to calm leadership parenting, changing rules based on your child’s behaviour, feeling like staying calm is not attainable, going from yelling to calm, and empty statements she seeds parents rely on. Lastly, Lisa addresses six listener questions, discussing what to do when a 3-year-old doesn’t care about consequences, how to handle defiance from a 2-year-old, ...

People in this episode

Host: Lisa Bunnage

Topics covered

• calm parenting
• body language
• child behavior
• parenting strategies
• listener questions

Keywords

• calm exterior
• parenting
• yelling
• defiance
• consequences
• leadership

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