How to be a calm parent and not lose your cool every day? Isn’t this the question we are all hoping to answer as busy moms? You want to be patient, present, and connected…not feel like you are losing your mind. 

Today’s guest, Jennifer Kolari, is a highly sought-after international speaker and the founder of Connected Parenting. A child and family therapist with a busy practice based in San Diego and Toronto, Kolari is also the author of Connected Parenting: How to Raise A Great Kid and You’re Ruining My Life! (But Not Really) Surviving the Teenage Years with Connected Parenting.

Jennifer’s powerful parenting model is based on the neurobiology of love, teaching parents how to use compassion and empathy as powerful medicine to transform challenging behaviors and build children’s emotional resilience and emotional shock absorbers. Kolari’s wisdom, quick wit and down-to-earth style help parents navigate modern-day parenting problems, offering real-life examples, as well as practical and effective tools and strategies.

In today’s episode, we discuss…

• Using compassion as medicine and bringing peace to your home
• The trap of expecting our children to think, behave, or feel the way that we would
• Why the CEO mindset does not work at home
• The temptation to protect our children from all things at all costs
• The inability for children to emotionally regulate when you remove all adversity
• Building confidence and resilience in your children
• When YOU believe you, they will believe you
• Handling our children’s freak outs without our own freak outs
• If you are working harder than your child in a tantrum “you are just fuel”
• The concept of “adrenaline play”
• The pillar technique of connected parenting using deep connection and language
• Baby play and close connection
• The C.A.L.M. technique and how it works like magic
• Big feelings that don’t fit into little bodies

For the show notes and all the links mentioned in today’s episode, head to secretsofsupermom.com/91.

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