About this episode

The episode discusses how to stop taking a child's behavior personally and offers a reframing of thoughts to improve parent-child relationships.

If you’re struggling as you learn how to stop taking your child’s behaviour personally, girlfriend, I get you! That feeling — that your child is doing something to you — is an easy one to fall into. Not just being difficult, but somehow, specifically, deliberately difficult, aimed at you. You’ve had the thought before, even if you didn’t say it out loud: why does he do this to me? First of all, I want to admit, I have most definitely been there. But I want to offer you a different question to reframe that. Not because your frustration isn’t valid — it is — but because that first question keeps you stuck. It keeps you reacting instead of understanding. And once you swap it out, something in the whole relationship starts to shift. “Why Is He Doing This to Me?” vs. “This Is Just How He’s Wired” In a recent coaching conversation, one of the moms I work with was working through exactly this. Her son has a hard time sitting still, gets bored fast, and constantly needs something new to stay engaged — and she’d been reading that as defiance. As him pushing back against her, specifically, was on purpose. But that constant…

People in this episode

Host: Teresa Wiedrick

Topics covered

• child behavior
• parenting
• emotional response
• understanding children
• reframing thoughts

Keywords

• child behavior
• parenting advice
• emotional intelligence
• Enneagram
• reframing
• understanding children

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