Parenting is hard. Behavior issues, screen time, and “manipulative” children…the list goes on. Our guest today, Christy Keating, helps us understand the importance of building connections to manage all these parenting struggles and more. 

Christy is a Certified Parent Coach® , a Certified Positive Discipline Instructor, and a Certified Instructor with the Gottman Institute.  She is also a long-time leader and speaker at the Program for Early Parent Support. In addition to her work as a parent coach, Christy is a licensed attorney and former prosecutor of 20 years with expertise in the prosecution of sexually violent predators.

In today’s episode, we discuss…

• How–and why–Christy left a demanding career in trial law to work with parents as a coach
• Behavior issues in children and feeling helpless and stuck as parents
• The balance between being too authoritarian and too permissive
• The reason we are often destined to parent the way we were parented
• The impact of our beliefs about our children on our parenting decisions
• The truth about “manipulative” children
• The purpose of behavior: belonging, significance, connection, and control
• Building connections with our children 
• Responding vs. reacting as parents
• How to build increasing amounts of space between reacting and the trigger
• Finding ways to pause

For the show notes and all the links mentioned in today’s episode, head to secretsofsupermom.com/87.

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