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My guest today is Sarah MacLaughlin. Sarah is a social worker, parent educator, and author of the award winning best-selling book: What Not to Say: Tools for Talking with Young Children.
She is a writer, trainer, and content expert for Zero to Three, a national nonprofit dedicated to ensuring that all babies and toddlers have a strong start in life. 
Sarah maintains a blog, writes the parenting toolbox column for Portland Main’s Parent and Family, and has been featured many places online including the Huffington Post and this podcast: eps 30 & eps 52 Her latest book is called Raising Humans with Heart and is an invaluable resource for moms, dads, and caregivers everywhere. 

Takeaways from the show:

Sarah’s new book

Getting curious about behavior

Parenting manual we all have

Trusting maturity will come around

Mistakes are the primary learning tool for humans

Stay current with your own emotional process

Fiercely committed and lovingly detached 

Being supportive without being suffocating

Separating our regrets from our kid’s lives

You have control over the narrative

Willingness vs. willfulness 

Conflict is a relationship builder

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