Raising Boys & Girls with Sissy Goff and David Thomas

About this episode

The episode features a conversation with Sissy Goff and David Thomas about parenting, emotional health, and practical tools for raising resilient children.

In this episode, I get to sit down with two of my favorite voices in the parenting space, Sissy Goff and David Thomas. Sissy wrote The Worry-Free Parent and Raising Worry-Free Girls, and David wrote Raising Emotionally Strong Boys. Their books have been such a gift to me in my own friend circle / mom book club, and this conversation felt like talking to two friends. Instead of piling on more “fix your kid” advice, it reminds us that the best gift we can give our kids is our own emotional health. We talk about how our regulation becomes their regulation, how to stop worry loops before they spill over, and how to resist that urge to swoop in and rescue (so hard, right?). They share so many practical tools for caring for our own minds and hearts so we can model resilience for our kids. We also get into what it looks like to notice our child’s unique temperament without projecting our fears, and simple ways to coach kids through big feelings - naming emotions, breathing, coping strategies, and even letting them do the “scary thing” without overstepping. Faith threads through the conversation too, reminding us that God equips us for the hard things He’s writing into our family’s…

People in this episode

Host: unknown

Guests: Sissy Goff, David Thomas

Topics covered

• parenting
• emotional health
• child development
• resilience
• faith

Keywords

• parenting
• emotional health
• resilience
• child development
• big feelings

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: The Worry-Free Parent, Raising Worry-Free Girls, Raising Emotionally Strong Boys

Places: God

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