19/08/2020
We hardly need to add anything to this! has the best quotes and one-liners. ”Want to raise kind children? Be kind to your children.” This reminds us of the saying ’you can't fight fire with fire ’. We can't expect our children to just be kind if they have no model behaviour to follow. The same way we can't expect to get through to someone angry by becoming angry ourselves.
introduced us to this state called ’flipping your lid.’ It comes from Dan Siegel, clinical professor of psychiatry and author of The Whole-Brain Child. When two people have ’flipped their lid’ they cannot communicate effectively with each other. They just can't hear what the other person is saying. explains this much better than we do, so go check her out! And you can also find Dan Siegel speaking about this on YouTube.
The pressure to always do the right thing for our children can feel overwhelming, but if you're here right now, reading this, we know that you are an amazing parent! Keep pushing on, you've got this!
