Parenting Without Fixing: Dr. Becky Kennedy on Raising Resilient Kids | Dealing With Feelings

In this episode of Dealing With Feelings, Dr. Marc Brackett sits down with Dr. Becky Kennedy, clinical psychologist, best selling author and founder of Good Inside, to explore revolutionary parenting techniques that prioritize emotional understanding over traditional discipline. Dr. Becky shares her powerful insights into co-regulation, teaching parents how to be emotionally present for their children and guide them through their toughest emotions without feeling the need to "fix" them.

What to Expect from This Episode:
-Parenting with Emotional Presence: Discover how to support your child’s emotional development without the need to fix or change their feelings.
-Co-Regulation for Parents & Kids: Dr. Becky emphasizes how parents’ emotional regulation can help children learn to manage their own emotions.
-Handling Emotional Outbursts: Tools for responding to frustration and challenging behavior with empathy and connection, rather than punishment.
-Strengthening Family Bonds: How understanding emotions and being present with your children creates a healthier, more connected family dynamic.
-Real-Life Examples: Dr. Becky and Dr. Marc dive deep into practical, real-world situations that every parent can relate to and learn from.

Key Takeaways:
-Transforming the Parent-Child Relationship: Learn how to replace punishment with emotional support, building a stronger bond and fostering a child’s emotional intelligence.
-Practical Parenting Strategies: Concrete tools to handle frustration, entitlement, and emotional outbursts without compromising boundaries.
-The Parent’s Role in Emotional Resilience: How becoming more emotionally aware as a parent can directly impact your child’s emotional growth.
-Co-Regulation in Action: Understand the power of co-regulation, where parents and children grow together through emotional awareness and empathy.

This conversation with Dr. Becky Kennedy will change how you approach emotional challenges at home and give you practical strategies to raise emotionally strong and resilient children. Tune in for an enlightening discussion on fostering deeper connections and healthier relationships, both at home and in all areas of life.

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[deroshamoodley]

Thank you Dr. Marc and Dr. Becky for sharing this helpful information

I am not a parent but would like to be one, so I found this episode to be useful to my future self.

My takeaways:

1. Doing Nothing.
2. Mantras are important – “I am safe, this is not an emergency, I can cope with this”
3. Visualise your child performing the task that is difficult for them.
4. The power of impermanence appears in this video as well - a five year old’s behavior is not indicative of a fixed personality. Love this!
5. Thanks Dr. Becky for sharing with us what a hopeful manager/boss sounds like with the scripted response to an employee with time management difficulty.
6. I was amazed at the comment about how parenting is not natural and the idea of having a “maternal instinct” is a problematic expectation. The huge eye-opener is how under-resourced parents are in the world and if they are provided with resources they would feel sturdier enough to be good listeners and have empathy and compassion for their kids. Those resources could be in the form of emotion skills.
7. I also really found the idea of emotionally intelligent parenting being about "re-allocation of time" quite powerful. If a parent makes time for the emotional work there is less recovery time from both parent and child during challenging moments and tasks could be completed with less emotional repercussions.

This was very empowering! I hope parents watch this!

[damonhakim]

One of the most authentic conversations between parents x experts ive watched on youtube.

[melissacastillo]

OMG doing nothing, I've so much to change! Thanks for sharing this wonderful conversation!