The Best Response to Our Children's Turbulent Emotions

In this episode of "Unruffled," Janet Lansbury addresses common parental challenges related to children's emotional expression, emphasizing the importance of trusting and accepting children's feelings rather than trying to control or fix them. She shares and analyzes several listener-submitted scenarios, providing advice on how to respond to children's emotions in a way that fosters resilience and emotional agility. The core message revolves around trusting children's emotional processes, allowing them to fully experience their feelings, and avoiding the urge to immediately resolve discomfort. Lansbury encourages parents to shift their perspective from fixing emotions to understanding and validating them, which ultimately leads to a calmer and more connected parent-child relationship.