· Discover tips for handling kids’ behaviors and moods.
· Learn how we can help our children with their BIG emotions by first addressing our own.
· Understand the importance of identifying the root of our children’s “big emotions” with curiosity instead of judgment.
Today's Valuable Free Resources/Links:
· FREE resource to help you get the YUCK out of your relationship with your child, click here: https://rachel-bailey.com/longgame/
Summary
In this episode, I introduce you to Rachel Bailey.
Rachel is a Parenting Specialist who has been serving families for over a decade.
Besides being a mother of two, she also has a master’s degree in clinical psychology, a certification in Positive Discipline, and has provided services as an ADHD Coach, in-home mentor, and therapist.
Through her podcast, programs, and services Rachel teaches parents hands-on tools for raising resilient, confident children and bringing peace and connection to families.
Join me for this episode of Mommy Heal Thyself to learn how to raise children with big emotions.
Time Stamped Highlights
- Raising children with emotional intelligence. 0:00
- Expert Rachel Bailey shares strategies for raising resilient, confident children with big emotions.
- Parenting and emotional intelligence for kids. 1:44
- Unknown Speaker shares their journey from studying neuro psychology to becoming a parenting expert, focusing on helping parents of sensitive, anxious, or strong-willed children.
- Unknown Speaker helps women address internal drama and disconnection in their homes and relationships by working on their own emotional intelligence and communication skills.
- The speaker emphasizes that parents must address their own issues first before trying to help their kids, as kids often reflect back what's going on inside the parents.
- Parenting challenges and solutions. 5:25
- Unknown Speaker: Women tend to feel guilty and blame themselves when their children experience big emotions, leading to feelings of stuckness and helplessness.
- Unknown Speaker: Parents, especially moms, tend to make the mistake of staying stuck in the belief that they are failures, rather than recognizing their own emotions and teaching their children resilience.
- Managing children's big emotions. 7:46
- Unknown Speaker: Kids react to parents from a place of "yuck" (uncomfortable emotions), leading to controlling behaviors and internalizing issues.
- Parents can influence kids by making small changes in their own emotional regulation, leading to more mature behaviors and less dysregulation.
- Shift from judgment to curiosity when dealing with children's big emotions.
- Address the reason behind yelling or emotional outbursts to find solutions, rather than blaming oneself.
- Parenting, emotions, and self-care with Rachel. 11:38
