A parent called me out in front of everyone at a live parenting workshop in Sydney recently!! EEK.

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Basically they said: "Why bother with emotional intelligence? Isn’t it faster to just punish and move on?"

He’s right about one thing. This kind of parenting does take more time and effort. It’s inconvenient. It’s slower. It requires more of us.

But it also builds something punishment never can: connection, trust, and long-term emotional resilience.

So in this video, I share why I choose the harder way — the emotionally intelligent way — even when life is busy, messy, and overwhelming.

Because our kids don’t need more control. They need more coaching.

And the world they’re growing up in is going to demand "soft skills" like empathy, self-regulation, and communication more than EVER before.

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Steph xx

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