I’ve bought a ton in my short 8 years as a mother, and I’ve only made it through 2 without being wildly triggered and feeling hopeless: The Whole Brain Child and Good Inside. Understand when your child is having an unformulated experience (like listening to a vacuum for the first time and not knowing what its purpose is and being afraid). There are so many nuggets of good advice here that all cohere with a grand strategy of recognizing that behaviors are not your child, they are windows into their needs.

Good Inside : A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be

I suspect this method is going to produce kids who spend way too much time analyzing their inner world, and who expect the outer world to revolve around their findings.We have now spent at least 90 minutes of the day just hashing over our emotions related to this birthday party, plus the emotional residue of all the unpleasantness has tainted the entire day.

Good Inside, A Practical Guide to Becoming the Parent You Good Inside, A Practical Guide to Becoming the Parent You

Kennedy's Instagram feed, which is also a delight and contains so many wonderful nuggets of wisdom, so I was already sort of a fan before picking this up. You'll gain the tools to embody your authority while developing a stronger parent-child connection, helping you become the parent you want to be and helping your child develop the skills necessary for life success. Becky applies the Good Inside Approach and Toolbox to specific topics that parents often struggle with, such as sleep, screen time, discipline, homework, food, friendships, and more. On another level, she encouraged parents to see their own good intent in parenting (this enables grace toward ourselves in our role as parent). You can help him out of it by empathizing with that shame, helping him bring the truth out, and showing him that his safety and emotional security aren’t at risk just because he makes a bad decision.But there are always kids who need a bit more, and those kids – or at least, the ones from middle-class families – are the ones who end up in the psychologist’s office.