Aliza wants to be more comfortable with the different parenting styles and roles that her children are encountering. Additionally, Aliza recognizes that her "more reactive" style is allowing her kids to take control of situations that quickly lead to meltdowns. How can Aliza reduce her "more reactive" style of parenting and be open to other methods?
Today, I talk with Aliza about why we should be open to different styles of parenting. We talk about how having a "more reactive" style can encourage a child to act out and have more control of a situation. I suggest that Aliza be more willing to let the smaller problems slide if it means accomplishing her main parenting objective. We discuss the benefits of exposing your children to different parenting styles and how that can lead to new rules in the house that lets everyone feel in control.
"You do your own thing. Because if you think about it, if your child ended up having a different mother, they would be raised differently. We're not the only people that can figure out what's going to make our kids tick."
- Sue Groner
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