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continuously shame somebody
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eventually they're going to become immune to shame
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which is actually
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a much worse problem than whatever it is
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that you think you're solving
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by shaming people
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so that's another observation that I think is true
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well I think I
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I'll just say that I think shame as a tool is horrible
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yeah shame is not a parenting tool
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that's probably
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a principle that is probably well established I agree
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it is probably well established I agree
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hello and welcome to raising men
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I'm Shawn Dawson and today
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we're tackling one of the hardest parts
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about raising boys in my opinion
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which is aggression when our sons
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they hit or they kick or scream
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at least my gut reaction is often fear
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I'm afraid about his future
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I I draw this line into the future that
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oh my gosh
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this is the way he's gonna be when he's an adult
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I feel I fear that I'm failing and
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and often I I react or my
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gut reaction is to react with harshness or shaming
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but our guest today Tasha Shore
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points out that aggression
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it's not a sign of a bad kid
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so to speak but a signal of a frightened one
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Tasha is the founder of Parenting Boys Peacefully
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and the out with aggression program
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and she's the author of listen
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5 Simple Tools
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to meet your Everyday Parenting challenges
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she's here to show us how we can cultivate peace
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in and out of the home with our sons
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Tasha
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thank you so much for joining us on raising
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thank you so much for inviting me on
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I'm excited for this conversation
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me too
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me too
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so you talk about something that I
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it just absolutely struck me when I encountered it
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and that is the bad guy myth
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and the way that I would describe that
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and please correct me if I'm wrong
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is that the I we
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it's this idea that we mislabel boys as troublemakers
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when actually they're just struggling
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they're trying to make it work
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and so for example
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data from the center for Social Justice
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shows that boys are twice as likely to get in trouble
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at school as girls
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and I think this is a symptom of that how much of that
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lost boy trajectory
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starts with misinterpreting their reactivity
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as a character flaw rather than an emotional signal
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I think a lot of it starts with that
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and I think you touched on something which is equally
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important which is the fear that we feel as a result
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because our fear is then driving our response
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so we're in a fear cycle they're scared and acting out
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and then we're scared and acting out
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and then we spiral down together
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and so in order to get us out of this um
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sort of world world pool
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somebody's got to change
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and if there's one thing we know
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is that we can't change anybody else
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so we gotta start with ourselves
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yeah and we're the ones with the
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the fully developed prefrontal cortex
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we're the ones who you know
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can control what we're doing
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and by the way
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we're the ones who are supposed to be training our sons
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to to be effective in the world right
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absolutely and
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and it's possible I think people feel like
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you know I've got so much baggage
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I'm I'm 30
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you know my parents parented me in a certain way
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yeah I want to stop yelling
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I want to do things differently
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but I just can't and I
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I wanna say that you absolutely can it
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I see people change all the time
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but just before we got on this recording
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I was working with a couple
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uh from Ireland
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I have been working with this couple
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on and off for the last few years
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and she got on and told me like
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I just want to tell you like
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I scheduled this not because
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there's a crisis everything is going really
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really well but I just wanted to have you in my world
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and be able to bounce ideas
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and I asked how her husband was doing
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and she said one of the biggest things that's shifted
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in their family
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and that has helped to stop the aggression
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is that they used to have this cycle where
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and they also have three boys like I did or do
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and they're now men that's why I said did right and and
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one of the boys would get aggressive about something
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or the two you know
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two of them would go at each other
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and dad would just get all fired up and get scared
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do that you know
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forward fear thinking that you were just talking about
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oh my God
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what is gonna happen they're gonna kill each other
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they're gonna hate each other
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blah blah
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blah and he would start yelling and and and
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and being harsh and shaming and all of those things
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and they would spiral
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and she said he doesn't lose it anymore
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that has completely shifted the dynamics in the family
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what a powerful statement
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just think about what that's like from his experience
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I feel this because I was kind of that way early on
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I found that my son could push buttons in me
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that I didn't know I have
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my whole life I've been this real level headed guy
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I don't I'm not quick to anger anything like that
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but then I found that my son could trigger rage in me
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in a way that no one has ever been able to do
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this is what our kids do to us yeah
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it it's
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it's it's absolutely amazing
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it was a real unlock for me
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when I finally realized that
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I was screaming at him to calm down
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I was like wait a minute
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that's insane like
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he's not gonna calm down because I'm screaming at him
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it's gonna it's only gonna make things worse
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and I realized we were in the toilet bowl
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absolutely and
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and the thing is we feel so badly when we do that
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we don't want to do that you didn't want to do that
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that's right it's just
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it's just the fallback when our toolboxes are empty
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when we're running on empty
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it's just what comes out automatically
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it's what was done to us it's what we see in the movies
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we we have to retrain our brains
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we have to retrain ourselves
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in order to respond differently
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like one of the things that's really gonna help
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is to reframe aggression as not the sign of
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oh my God
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this kid is totally screwed up and he's a psychopath
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and he's a horrible person
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but this is some form of communication
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like he is struggling he is hurting inside
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he is likely scared his
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his his radar right
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his limbic system in his brain
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is sensing a lack of safety
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even if you don't see that
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so if we can get curious there's lots that we can do
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I I love that term about getting curious or
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or reacting with compassion
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instead of as a way I have to tamp down this activity
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this this reactivity that he's having
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otherwise
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he's going to grow up into be a man and beat people up
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right right
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so what
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once we have that recognition
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have this intellectual understanding
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okay this is a fear response from him
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now what do we do
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well I think we always start with ourselves
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so I always when I'm working with a family
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that's struggling with aggression
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the first place we're gonna start well
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the first place we're gonna start is like safety
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but part of that is how we respond
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so I like to start off with parents and talk about
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how do we get you into good enough parenting shape
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notice not perfect parenting shape
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not I'm never gonna make a mistake
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not I'm never gonna wish I said
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or did something differently
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but good enough
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that's all all I gotta do is good enough
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that could be different things for different people
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it might be getting uh
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support in in terms of like
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having the physical presence of another person
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having somebody on the other end of a phone line
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in case you need to call them for support
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it it could look a lot of different ways
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it might be simply telling your partner
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or whoever is living with you in your house
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that you're gonna do some experiments um
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in terms of responding to aggression
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differently than you have in the past and
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and communicating with them what their role could be
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or what you want them or don't want them to do
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how they can be involved or how could they
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they can be helpful
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or maybe the helpful is that they just stay
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stay back and let you do this for a while
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and you assure them that you'll let them know
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if you need help but there's a piece about
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how do we get ourselves into good enough parenting
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shape and I just want to be clear
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like as we talk about the different aspects
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of dealing with aggression
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it's not linear right it's not like okay
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you're gonna do this
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and then you're gonna check that off
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I mean we're all working on ourselves
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we're not gonna you know we're just
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we just want to be moving in the right direction
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so everything that we talk about is like
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it's it's a puzzle all the pieces fit together
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but I would start there
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and then we're gonna move into really strengthening
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our connection with our sweet boys
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because is the is the difference
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is the difference in
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is there a difference in the appropriate response
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when the aggression is two boys getting at it
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versus when it's a boy and a girl
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I think so I think for me
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I mean for okay
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it depends on the context and what's going on obviously
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I think for me the reason that I focus on boys is not
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it is not about sort of physiological differences
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it's more about how we
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as adults respond differently to a boy's behavior
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versus a girl's behavior and that
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I think we're lying to ourselves
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because teachers like you said right
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teachers respond differently
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administrators respond differently
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coaches respond differently
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um we respond differently
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there are studies that show that we respond differently
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to even a young baby boy's cry
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than we do to a baby girl's cry
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from a very early age in our child's life
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the world is treating them differently
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simply because they've been labeled a boy right
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that's a tremendous insight
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and it really affects it
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I once had my
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my boy got sent home from school a couple of weeks ago
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and it was because he got into a fight with a girl
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a friend of his that I mean
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they're great friends and they got in a fight
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and he ended up holding her physically
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up against a fence
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and I you know I
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got called into the principal's office
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he got called in in
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into the principal's office and it was this huge thing
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and yet if he had done that to a boy
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and he has done that to boys before
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and boys have done that to him
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it didn't turn into this enormous thing
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but because it was a girl
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it really did right
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well so can I say
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so that's what I meant by like
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I do think there's context
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and so I think we can if
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you know if we're honest
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we can understand that yeah
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because there's yeah
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I'm not saying it's in it's inappropriate necessarily
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but it's definitely different right
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so there's there's a power differential
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differential in in genders
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and so um
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I think we as adults and all of this and
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you know
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I don't want you to fill in this information publicly
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but you know
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depending on the age
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and the history of the relationship and
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and what not
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like it would make sense to respond in different ways
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um but I think there's always in the background
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this knowledge that we have to carry of
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of of men and boys using their power over girls
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so in this case
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there could have been something like that
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or there could not have been something like that
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and I think the default is like
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oh my God he's doing this to her right um
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and and
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and what I would say is that we need
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to put safety first okay
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for sure so we want to make sure everybody's safe
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but then the part that we lose it at
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and I think this is true of schools
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it's true of us as parents
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is that
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we don't take the time to mend the relationship
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right people will go to this place of oh
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but it's you know
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it's it's
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it's trauma inducing to you know
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retraumatizing for you know
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the the child who was pushed up against the fence
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for example to to relive it
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but that's how we build resilience
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is by expressing ourselves
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what did it feel like what
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you know what
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what happened what LED up to it
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what could we do differently
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what do we expect do we need an apology
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um you know
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what sort of mentoring does he need
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to be able to show up differently next time
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like otherwise
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we're just kind of writing him off as a bad kid
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and we're basically throwing her into sort of a victim
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bucket right
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and neither one of those things is helpful right
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it would be so amazing and revolutionary
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if we could help them repair
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and that doesn't mean that
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they're gonna be great friends forever and
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and sometimes
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there might be a rift that destroys a relationship
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that happens it happens in adult relationships as well
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sure but most often
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especially when kids are young
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if we take the time to help kids repair
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then they can go back to being friends yeah
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in this in this particular case
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um
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I ended up reaching out to the father of the girl who
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who is you know
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an acquaintance of mine you know
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our friends are our our
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our kids are friends and so he's
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we have we
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you know we have a texting relationship
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and asking him what her experience was and all of that
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and it and it turned out that she was
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she felt she was really really upset about the incident
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but not because she was held up against the fence
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but because my boy got in trouble
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and she felt like it was her
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fault that he got in trouble right
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I mean and those are the nuances
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and again
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that doesn't mean that what your boy did was okay
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nobody's saying that yeah
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but it's nuance there's more to it
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like what happens to that relationship
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what happens to her okay
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she feels in this case
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she says she she feels bad
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well that's
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that's not useful to their relationship either like
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like they could we
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we could facilitate a conversation about that
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or a repair around that as well
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so anyway yes
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everything is is quite nuanced
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but yeah it
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it's sure does play a role
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but if if two people
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if two kids are boy girl or boy boy yes
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there's some differences but ultimately
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first of all we gotta keep everybody safe
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and then can we please focus in on
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that relationship I always say to my kids
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relationship first relationships first yeah
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you know social
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emotional peace first
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everything else you can learn later and make up later
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but like we have to nurture relationships
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yeah we do
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that's a really fundamental thing
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isn't it we're herd animals
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and if you don't have a way of establishing
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and maintaining relationships
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with other humans
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you're broken in
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in a way that the culture is gonna push you to the edge
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right and real relationships are
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relationships where you can mess up yeah
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and then repair yeah
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and then grow from that and move forward
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yeah so the
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the bringing it back to the steps
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the first step is about healing yourself
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and by fixing yourself so to speak
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um what happens after that
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so then
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I have parents really focus in on
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reconnecting with their sweet boys so
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you know some parents will come and they'll feel really
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they'll say you know
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oh we're really connected
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like we have we have good times together
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other parents come and they're feeling like
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I hate this kid I can't stand him
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other parents are feeling like
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I'm terrified of him I don't wanna be alone with him
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I'm afraid he's gonna hurt me
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I mean
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there are all sorts of feelings that we're coming
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to this work with yeah
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but we have to take the time regardless to spend um
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some one on one time
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to really nurture those relationships
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so that not
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just so that the child
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has some reserves of love to go on
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as he's moving through his world
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but also
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so that we can remember that we actually like the kid
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and we can feel inspired to want to help him do better
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and help things go better
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oftentimes when we
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I teach a practice called special time
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and oftentimes
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there's sort of resistance on the part of the parents
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knowing ah
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don't feel like doing this
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it takes time um
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and then they'll come back to me and say like
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you know I thought this was for my kid
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but actually I'm really liking it
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yeah because there's amazing side effects
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like for example
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so many parents come to me
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and they're complaining
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that their boy never talks to them
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you know he doesn't tell me anything
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especially moms because a lot of moms are much more
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sort of verbal in their processing
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and we wanna talk to our friends about our feelings
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and how things are going
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and we want our boys to do the same with us
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and some do and some don't
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and so they're wanting to get their kid to talk to them
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and he's just not and often times
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when they start this practice of special time
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one of the beautiful side effects is he starts sharing
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yeah so tell me more about special time
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what what is special time and and
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and how do we practice it
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yeah special time is
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just a simple
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one on one time that you spend with your child
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where they get to lead so it's
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it's um
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it turns upside down
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kind of their daily experience as young children
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of adults running their lives right
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cause if you think about it
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if you have a young child
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if you have a young boy it's like
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you know brush your teeth
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get your clothes on go to school
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did you do your homework time for practice
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it's it's just
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we're constantly kind of pulling and tugging
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and pulling and pushing and and
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and dictating what to do and then also what not to do
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you know stop yelling at your sister
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don't push your brother all
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all the things
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so so
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what special hand does is it gives him this timed
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little um
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bubble where he gets to be in charge
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and it's quite empowering
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and it's also enlightening for us
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because we get insights into his world
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I often call it a window into his world
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yeah that's
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where he might share something
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that he wouldn't otherwise share
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because maybe when he usually comes home and he wants
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he has something on his mind
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and we start drilling him like a drill sergeant
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he kind of clams up and shuts down sure
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but if we're quiet
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and we're just following his lead in special time
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he gets to share what he wants
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when he wants on his own terms
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so it's it's nice
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and you also get to see like what he's interested in
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yeah
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when you're not sort of dictating what's coming next
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yeah so special time is a great way to do
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it's not the only way to build connection
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but it's one
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1 tool that I love parents to have in their toolbox
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and it has to be with no other kids around
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so it's really like showing them
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I am putting everything else aside
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my email my work
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my partner if I have one
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your siblings if those exist right
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I am all in just for you and that's an amazing feeling
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and it's just one kid at a time
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right and even the other sibling is gone
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we're just doing this one kid
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one kid this
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this tool is one a one kid tool
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yeah I love this
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and how often would you recommend people do this
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you know it's
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there's there's no one size fits all
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I'll say to parent you know
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if you if you're coming to me for coaching and
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and you've got a kid who is
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you know aggressive
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very aggressive on
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on the daily and multiple times a day
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and there's sibling stuff
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or he's hurting you as a parent
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um you know
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we gotta we gotta do more
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if things are copacetic everybody's
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you know kind of
556
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moving along in life and everything's
557
00:20:15,050 --> 00:20:16,500
or most things are are going well
558
00:20:16,500 --> 00:20:17,700
and there's little blips here and there
559
00:20:17,700 --> 00:20:19,450
it's like whenever you can fit it
560
00:20:19,450 --> 00:20:23,450
in if you can do special time on the weekend for 10
561
00:20:23,450 --> 00:20:26,333
15 minutes every weekend that would be great yeah
562
00:20:26,333 --> 00:20:27,500
but if it's every day you know
563
00:20:27,500 --> 00:20:30,750
I'm gonna say like we we're gonna do this every day
564
00:20:30,816 --> 00:20:32,466
every day yeah
565
00:20:32,533 --> 00:20:35,450
cause he's screaming for help if he's acting like that
566
00:20:35,450 --> 00:20:37,966
yeah and we need to answer that call yeah
567
00:20:37,966 --> 00:20:40,466
one of the big unlocks for me in
568
00:20:40,900 --> 00:20:42,650
in in a way to that I
569
00:20:42,650 --> 00:20:44,333
that allowed me to keep in
570
00:20:44,333 --> 00:20:45,816
what I call my Sherlock brain
571
00:20:45,816 --> 00:20:48,233
as opposed to my Conan the barbarian brain right
572
00:20:48,450 --> 00:20:51,266
one of the big unlocks for me was to realize that
573
00:20:51,650 --> 00:20:53,216
there's a tension and
574
00:20:53,216 --> 00:20:55,366
and both of my kids and all kids
575
00:20:55,366 --> 00:20:56,650
I think have
576
00:20:56,650 --> 00:20:58,666
live in this tension of
577
00:20:58,900 --> 00:21:02,316
they want connection and they want independence
578
00:21:02,450 --> 00:21:05,333
and sometimes they're feeling not independent enough
579
00:21:05,333 --> 00:21:06,166
and so
580
00:21:06,166 --> 00:21:08,050
they're trying to assert their independence by saying
581
00:21:08,050 --> 00:21:09,550
no all the time for example
582
00:21:09,750 --> 00:21:11,500
and sometimes they
583
00:21:11,500 --> 00:21:12,700
they're not getting enough connection
584
00:21:12,700 --> 00:21:13,566
and so
585
00:21:13,566 --> 00:21:15,700
they're spending more time trying to get connection
586
00:21:15,700 --> 00:21:18,016
and often times the way that
587
00:21:18,016 --> 00:21:21,700
their reflex to get connection is to act in ways
588
00:21:21,700 --> 00:21:23,416
that make it harder to connect
589
00:21:23,416 --> 00:21:24,333
to scream and yell
590
00:21:24,333 --> 00:21:26,200
or throw tantrums and those sorts of things
591
00:21:26,300 --> 00:21:29,416
and when I was able to take a step back
592
00:21:29,416 --> 00:21:31,016
and look at the 50,000 foot view
593
00:21:31,016 --> 00:21:32,216
and realize oh okay
594
00:21:32,216 --> 00:21:34,333
they're often seeking one of those two things
595
00:21:34,333 --> 00:21:39,633
then now all I need are tools to to enhance the
596
00:21:39,766 --> 00:21:41,866
connection or the independence
597
00:21:41,900 --> 00:21:43,900
in a way that's consistent with our values
598
00:21:43,900 --> 00:21:46,116
so I'm not going to respond
599
00:21:46,216 --> 00:21:48,533
in a favorable way to throwing the tantrum
600
00:21:48,533 --> 00:21:50,833
but I am still going to go
601
00:21:50,900 --> 00:21:53,716
try and establish additional connection
602
00:21:54,250 --> 00:21:54,650
right well
603
00:21:54,650 --> 00:21:56,766
one one of the things that's really cool
604
00:21:56,766 --> 00:22:00,366
another side effect of of special time
605
00:22:00,366 --> 00:22:01,300
which is really cool
606
00:22:01,300 --> 00:22:05,700
is that our kids begin to ask for it
607
00:22:05,700 --> 00:22:08,966
and that's always how I know with clients that they're
608
00:22:08,966 --> 00:22:10,450
they're doing what they need to be doing
609
00:22:10,450 --> 00:22:12,900
and things are shifting because you're right
610
00:22:12,900 --> 00:22:13,100
like
611
00:22:13,100 --> 00:22:16,700
kids will ask for attention and call for attention and
612
00:22:16,700 --> 00:22:18,566
because they need it yeah
613
00:22:18,566 --> 00:22:20,300
I'll say um but often
614
00:22:20,300 --> 00:22:23,050
in ways that are really hard for us to respond to
615
00:22:23,050 --> 00:22:25,200
calmly or positively as parents
616
00:22:25,366 --> 00:22:27,450
but when you start the practice of special time
617
00:22:27,450 --> 00:22:30,100
and they start to realize on a subconscious level wow
618
00:22:30,100 --> 00:22:33,316
when we're doing this like I feel better
619
00:22:33,566 --> 00:22:34,366
uh huh
620
00:22:34,933 --> 00:22:37,216
yeah and they're not like cognitively going over wow
621
00:22:37,216 --> 00:22:39,416
I feel more connected to my dad or you know
622
00:22:39,416 --> 00:22:40,166
anything like that
623
00:22:40,166 --> 00:22:43,233
but like it's a somatic experience that they're having
624
00:22:43,300 --> 00:22:43,733
yeah they and
625
00:22:43,733 --> 00:22:45,300
and you call it something
626
00:22:45,300 --> 00:22:46,500
and it doesn't have to be special time
627
00:22:46,500 --> 00:22:47,566
but you call it something
628
00:22:47,566 --> 00:22:50,300
they then have a vocabulary word that they can use
629
00:22:50,300 --> 00:22:52,566
and they will start asking for it
630
00:22:52,566 --> 00:22:55,166
like I'll just say when one of my kids was really young
631
00:22:55,166 --> 00:22:57,100
he used to have such a hard time when I
632
00:22:57,100 --> 00:22:58,650
would go out for the evening
633
00:22:58,650 --> 00:23:01,416
like if it wasn't friends work whatever yeah um
634
00:23:01,416 --> 00:23:04,250
and he would do that thing where he'd cling to my leg
635
00:23:04,250 --> 00:23:06,050
right the thing you can't get him off
636
00:23:06,050 --> 00:23:08,766
and crying and screaming and hitting
637
00:23:08,766 --> 00:23:09,966
and all the things and
638
00:23:09,966 --> 00:23:10,700
and it was like
639
00:23:10,700 --> 00:23:13,050
by the time I peeled him off and got myself
640
00:23:13,050 --> 00:23:14,866
you know out the door
641
00:23:15,333 --> 00:23:17,016
I felt horrible I mean
642
00:23:17,016 --> 00:23:18,300
how much fun was I gonna have
643
00:23:18,300 --> 00:23:19,650
how great was that evening gonna go
644
00:23:19,650 --> 00:23:21,233
I was just thinking about him
645
00:23:21,450 --> 00:23:21,650
and then
646
00:23:21,650 --> 00:23:24,333
I had this idea that I could start doing special time
647
00:23:24,333 --> 00:23:28,066
before I left and give him that sort of extra
648
00:23:28,616 --> 00:23:30,000
um sort of uh
649
00:23:30,133 --> 00:23:33,166
you know inject a shot of connection yeah
650
00:23:33,166 --> 00:23:35,216
of connection before I left
651
00:23:35,216 --> 00:23:37,050
and things started to go better
652
00:23:37,050 --> 00:23:39,050
and then I don't know
653
00:23:39,050 --> 00:23:41,050
wasn't maybe a couple weeks later and I said hey
654
00:23:41,050 --> 00:23:43,533
you know I'm going out tonight and he said well
655
00:23:43,533 --> 00:23:45,950
can we do special time before you leave
656
00:23:45,950 --> 00:23:46,650
wow right
657
00:23:46,650 --> 00:23:49,700
and so he then had the vocabulary to ask for
658
00:23:49,700 --> 00:23:52,816
the thing that he knew helped him with that transition
659
00:23:52,816 --> 00:23:53,616
yeah
660
00:23:54,100 --> 00:23:56,900
that is such a powerful skill or a powerful tool
661
00:23:56,900 --> 00:23:59,016
I love that okay
662
00:23:59,016 --> 00:24:00,600
so we've cared for ourselves
663
00:24:00,900 --> 00:24:03,400
we've connected deeply now
664
00:24:04,450 --> 00:24:07,300
so then if we're going through like aggression steps
665
00:24:07,300 --> 00:24:08,166
and and mind you
666
00:24:08,166 --> 00:24:10,133
I just wanna say everybody's different
667
00:24:10,133 --> 00:24:10,416
absolutely
668
00:24:10,416 --> 00:24:13,500
but if I were gonna go sort of a step by step
669
00:24:13,500 --> 00:24:15,500
the next thing that I would probably have you do
670
00:24:15,500 --> 00:24:19,233
is pay attention to when the aggression happens because
671
00:24:20,450 --> 00:24:23,816
99% of the parents who come to me will say things like
672
00:24:23,816 --> 00:24:28,066
it happens out of the blue or it's all the time
673
00:24:28,416 --> 00:24:31,566
and I've been doing this for a long time
674
00:24:31,566 --> 00:24:32,666
couple decades
675
00:24:33,250 --> 00:24:34,900
I've never found that to be the case
676
00:24:34,900 --> 00:24:36,016
not ever yeah
677
00:24:36,016 --> 00:24:37,566
it's just not out of the blue
678
00:24:37,566 --> 00:24:39,750
there are always signs
679
00:24:39,900 --> 00:24:41,916
and when we can identify those patterns
680
00:24:41,933 --> 00:24:43,616
we empower ourselves
681
00:24:43,616 --> 00:24:45,300
to be able to take leadership roles
682
00:24:45,300 --> 00:24:47,800
and make plans for how we're gonna respond differently
683
00:24:49,100 --> 00:24:50,466
yeah I
684
00:24:50,933 --> 00:24:52,116
I love that
685
00:24:52,816 --> 00:24:53,416
yeah and then
686
00:24:53,416 --> 00:24:53,650
so OK
687
00:24:53,650 --> 00:24:56,366
so now I'm identifying the patterns and I realized that
688
00:24:56,366 --> 00:24:57,516
you know this happens
689
00:24:58,216 --> 00:24:58,416
I I
690
00:24:58,416 --> 00:25:01,150
I I experienced this very thing
691
00:25:01,333 --> 00:25:04,566
um if my boy's been spending too much time on his iPad
692
00:25:04,566 --> 00:25:07,200
watching YouTube videos um
693
00:25:07,416 --> 00:25:09,666
he'll start to get aggressive
694
00:25:09,966 --> 00:25:12,350
yeah and so now what do I do
695
00:25:12,850 --> 00:25:13,416
yeah I mean
696
00:25:13,416 --> 00:25:14,216
I think that
697
00:25:14,216 --> 00:25:17,433
that's a big can of worms you just tossed out there
698
00:25:17,500 --> 00:25:17,733
yeah um
699
00:25:17,733 --> 00:25:20,116
I just wrote an email to my uh
700
00:25:20,416 --> 00:25:21,650
you know a newsletter to my
701
00:25:21,650 --> 00:25:22,533
to my uh
702
00:25:22,533 --> 00:25:24,900
followers this this last week about this
703
00:25:24,900 --> 00:25:26,833
I cannot tell you how many
704
00:25:27,016 --> 00:25:30,366
clients are coming to me in the last few months
705
00:25:30,366 --> 00:25:32,800
with their kids playing Roblox
706
00:25:33,366 --> 00:25:35,216
and are so addicted
707
00:25:35,216 --> 00:25:37,333
that when the parents are asking them to get off
708
00:25:37,333 --> 00:25:39,950
they're getting punched in the stomach yeah
709
00:25:40,533 --> 00:25:42,766
they're getting like physically hurt things
710
00:25:42,766 --> 00:25:44,033
are getting broken
711
00:25:44,300 --> 00:25:47,016
like that's what this addiction is doing
712
00:25:47,016 --> 00:25:50,700
so I mean depending on where you're at with that
713
00:25:50,700 --> 00:25:51,850
like where parents are at
714
00:25:51,850 --> 00:25:52,016
I mean
715
00:25:52,016 --> 00:25:54,333
there's a lot of different things that we're gonna do
716
00:25:54,333 --> 00:25:54,966
yeah um
717
00:25:54,966 --> 00:26:01,633
but the big picture whether it be for tech or other
718
00:26:01,733 --> 00:26:03,700
you know other triggers for
719
00:26:03,700 --> 00:26:05,716
for the um aggression
720
00:26:05,900 --> 00:26:07,300
we're basically gonna be looking at
721
00:26:07,300 --> 00:26:09,850
how do we set loving limits yeah
722
00:26:09,850 --> 00:26:11,266
for this child
723
00:26:12,050 --> 00:26:13,816
so and by a loving limit I
724
00:26:13,816 --> 00:26:17,766
I just mean the tone that we use is gonna be loving
725
00:26:17,766 --> 00:26:19,933
we're gonna give it to them as my mentor taught me
726
00:26:19,933 --> 00:26:21,516
like we're giving them a gift
727
00:26:21,766 --> 00:26:23,733
it's not a punishment a limit isn't a
728
00:26:23,733 --> 00:26:24,900
a punishment
729
00:26:24,900 --> 00:26:28,250
it's not like a consequence like if you do this
730
00:26:28,250 --> 00:26:30,900
then I'm gonna do that kind of a thing not that tone
731
00:26:30,900 --> 00:26:33,550
not that attitude at all it's more of the
732
00:26:33,566 --> 00:26:35,766
the the tone of hey
733
00:26:35,766 --> 00:26:41,116
you know I noticed that when you play Roblox
734
00:26:41,566 --> 00:26:43,933
for an hour after school um
735
00:26:43,933 --> 00:26:46,033
when I ask you to turn it off
736
00:26:46,616 --> 00:26:47,850
we thought and you thought
737
00:26:47,850 --> 00:26:50,916
and I thought that it would just be an easy transition
738
00:26:51,333 --> 00:26:52,650
but what's happening is
739
00:26:52,650 --> 00:26:55,016
I'm actually getting hurt or things are getting broken
740
00:26:55,016 --> 00:26:57,733
so I thought this was gonna work and that was okay
741
00:26:57,733 --> 00:26:58,833
but it's not
742
00:26:59,250 --> 00:27:02,550
and so I'm gonna start holding limits around this
743
00:27:02,800 --> 00:27:04,216
and you can tell them ahead of time
744
00:27:04,216 --> 00:27:07,250
but then you're actually gonna learn how to bring a
745
00:27:07,250 --> 00:27:08,850
limit like not just yell at
746
00:27:08,850 --> 00:27:11,966
but actually make the thing happen
747
00:27:11,966 --> 00:27:14,933
so a lot of limit setting with aggression a lot
748
00:27:14,933 --> 00:27:16,350
a lot and you
749
00:27:17,366 --> 00:27:18,933
to what extent do you should
750
00:27:18,933 --> 00:27:22,716
we give them input into what those limits ought to be
751
00:27:23,450 --> 00:27:24,533
um you know
752
00:27:24,533 --> 00:27:26,816
that depends on their maturity level
753
00:27:26,816 --> 00:27:30,200
it also depends on your values and your relationship
754
00:27:30,216 --> 00:27:31,416
yeah I would also say
755
00:27:31,416 --> 00:27:34,316
a litmus test that I like to use with parents is
756
00:27:34,366 --> 00:27:37,816
are you confused about your limits
757
00:27:37,816 --> 00:27:40,433
or are you questioning this limit
758
00:27:40,500 --> 00:27:44,100
because you're afraid of how he's going to react to it
759
00:27:44,100 --> 00:27:45,550
or how he's gonna respond
760
00:27:45,566 --> 00:27:46,766
because if that's the case
761
00:27:46,766 --> 00:27:48,650
we need to revisit that yeah
762
00:27:48,650 --> 00:27:51,700
if you're just thinking to yourself well
763
00:27:51,700 --> 00:27:52,500
you know
764
00:27:52,566 --> 00:27:56,850
he likes to have a say in in in what happens and I'm
765
00:27:56,850 --> 00:27:59,333
I'm okay with sort of co
766
00:27:59,333 --> 00:28:02,300
creating this next plan with him
767
00:28:02,300 --> 00:28:04,716
and seeing how it goes as long as it
768
00:28:04,766 --> 00:28:06,733
you know X doesn't happen or why doesn't happen
769
00:28:06,733 --> 00:28:08,300
or it's within certain boundaries
770
00:28:08,300 --> 00:28:10,616
then you could absolutely start there
771
00:28:10,616 --> 00:28:12,616
like I just worked with a couple um
772
00:28:12,616 --> 00:28:15,916
and and we had this exact conversation and they decided
773
00:28:15,966 --> 00:28:18,766
um because of who their boy is
774
00:28:18,766 --> 00:28:20,133
and what they know about him
775
00:28:20,133 --> 00:28:24,533
he tends to be sort of a PDA kind of a profile and he
776
00:28:24,533 --> 00:28:26,900
he pushes back and
777
00:28:26,900 --> 00:28:29,350
and he does better when he gets to say
778
00:28:29,450 --> 00:28:31,450
and so there was a red line right
779
00:28:31,450 --> 00:28:32,700
they can't have the aggression
780
00:28:32,700 --> 00:28:35,000
after the test goes off but
781
00:28:35,566 --> 00:28:37,850
there are a few ways that we could go about doing that
782
00:28:37,850 --> 00:28:40,500
we could do we could go cold Turkey and do like
783
00:28:40,500 --> 00:28:42,266
a tech fast for two weeks
784
00:28:42,300 --> 00:28:45,550
or we could go back to um
785
00:28:45,850 --> 00:28:47,500
kind of a a time limit
786
00:28:47,500 --> 00:28:49,650
strategy that we had been doing a few months ago when
787
00:28:49,650 --> 00:28:50,933
and the aggression wasn't
788
00:28:50,933 --> 00:28:52,466
you know wasn't present then
789
00:28:52,566 --> 00:28:54,100
so they decided that
790
00:28:54,100 --> 00:28:57,450
even though they knew which one he would likely choose
791
00:28:57,450 --> 00:29:00,216
they wanted to present him the option of hey
792
00:29:00,216 --> 00:29:02,800
this isn't working yeah um
793
00:29:02,816 --> 00:29:04,733
so we're gonna try something different
794
00:29:04,733 --> 00:29:05,850
would you like this or this
795
00:29:05,850 --> 00:29:08,166
what do you think what would you like to try as the
796
00:29:08,166 --> 00:29:09,833
as the next experiment
797
00:29:10,216 --> 00:29:12,416
and so that would be an example of
798
00:29:12,416 --> 00:29:15,016
of parents who decided but
799
00:29:15,016 --> 00:29:16,450
a different set of parents could have
800
00:29:16,450 --> 00:29:17,733
decided something completely different
801
00:29:17,733 --> 00:29:18,916
and that would have been fine
802
00:29:18,966 --> 00:29:20,933
you get you're the expert on your family right
803
00:29:20,933 --> 00:29:22,033
you get to decide
804
00:29:22,616 --> 00:29:23,600
yeah I think
805
00:29:23,700 --> 00:29:24,750
you know my
806
00:29:25,333 --> 00:29:27,333
my instinct on that you know
807
00:29:27,333 --> 00:29:29,166
based on how I was raised right
808
00:29:29,166 --> 00:29:32,166
which is one of the one of my fundamental things
809
00:29:32,166 --> 00:29:34,500
is that the way that I was raised is maladaptive
810
00:29:34,500 --> 00:29:37,366
for our modern society and in a lot of ways
811
00:29:37,366 --> 00:29:39,950
and the way that I was raised is my
812
00:29:40,016 --> 00:29:41,850
and my my gut reaction is okay
813
00:29:41,850 --> 00:29:43,033
I'm gonna bring the hammer
814
00:29:43,100 --> 00:29:44,366
if you're gonna have interact
815
00:29:44,366 --> 00:29:47,300
if you're gonna have that kind of aggression
816
00:29:47,300 --> 00:29:48,300
after you play Roblox well
817
00:29:48,300 --> 00:29:50,216
then no freaking Roblox right
818
00:29:50,216 --> 00:29:50,900
and then it it
819
00:29:50,900 --> 00:29:55,216
it turns into this absolute nightmare because the
820
00:29:55,216 --> 00:29:59,566
the aggression finds another outlet and it isn't it's
821
00:29:59,566 --> 00:30:02,950
it ends up getting enhanced by that solution
822
00:30:03,016 --> 00:30:05,366
rather than suppressed by it right
823
00:30:05,366 --> 00:30:07,450
and so what I would do in working with parents is say
824
00:30:07,450 --> 00:30:09,133
like you know what actually Sean
825
00:30:09,133 --> 00:30:12,650
I think you have a reasonable ask
826
00:30:12,650 --> 00:30:15,050
or a reasonable experiment to try
827
00:30:15,050 --> 00:30:17,333
which is to go cold Turkey and do a tech fast
828
00:30:17,333 --> 00:30:18,766
like I think that's reasonable
829
00:30:18,766 --> 00:30:18,933
like
830
00:30:18,933 --> 00:30:21,416
let's talk about if that aligns with your values of
831
00:30:21,416 --> 00:30:22,016
you know how
832
00:30:22,016 --> 00:30:23,516
and then we can play out like
833
00:30:23,933 --> 00:30:26,916
how we think your kids gonna react
834
00:30:26,933 --> 00:30:29,800
we can set you up for success in those situations
835
00:30:30,050 --> 00:30:33,000
and we can prepare you so that you can show up
836
00:30:33,366 --> 00:30:36,033
still with that limit but in a loving way
837
00:30:37,016 --> 00:30:38,166
like I get
838
00:30:38,166 --> 00:30:40,533
I see this is hard we're gonna get through this yeah
839
00:30:40,533 --> 00:30:43,000
I know you can do it and I'm here to help
840
00:30:43,650 --> 00:30:45,733
because that's also empowering to them
841
00:30:45,733 --> 00:30:49,933
to know that they can actually do alright without it
842
00:30:49,933 --> 00:30:51,316
they don't want to be aggressive
843
00:30:51,366 --> 00:30:52,616
right like they
844
00:30:52,616 --> 00:30:54,566
they love that reassurance of
845
00:30:54,566 --> 00:30:56,516
I know you can do this
846
00:30:56,966 --> 00:30:58,100
and we're gonna get through this
847
00:30:58,100 --> 00:30:59,416
I'm gonna help you yeah
848
00:30:59,416 --> 00:30:59,816
they don't
849
00:30:59,816 --> 00:31:01,800
they actually don't wanna feel that way either
850
00:31:01,966 --> 00:31:04,366
no they feel like they do
851
00:31:04,366 --> 00:31:05,633
but they don't
852
00:31:06,450 --> 00:31:08,550
they feel horrible yeah
853
00:31:08,850 --> 00:31:11,266
I I find another one of my
854
00:31:11,500 --> 00:31:12,750
uh reflexes
855
00:31:12,766 --> 00:31:16,816
that doesn't really work all that well is to like
856
00:31:16,816 --> 00:31:18,350
try and stop and give him a lecture
857
00:31:19,216 --> 00:31:20,466
oh I love that one
858
00:31:20,616 --> 00:31:21,050
yeah and
859
00:31:21,050 --> 00:31:22,100
and it's almost like
860
00:31:22,100 --> 00:31:24,733
I feel like I can reason him out of the tantrum or
861
00:31:24,733 --> 00:31:27,366
or reason him out of the the like OK
862
00:31:27,366 --> 00:31:29,300
I've taken the the iPad away
863
00:31:29,300 --> 00:31:31,350
and now I'm gonna sit him down and make him
864
00:31:31,416 --> 00:31:34,450
listen to me drone on for 10 minutes
865
00:31:34,450 --> 00:31:36,166
about the importance of balance in life
866
00:31:36,166 --> 00:31:37,516
and all this BS
867
00:31:37,566 --> 00:31:39,416
and I mean you've
868
00:31:39,416 --> 00:31:43,716
you've done a lot of you you speak very negatively uh
869
00:31:43,733 --> 00:31:45,266
to that and it was
870
00:31:45,450 --> 00:31:48,400
it was eye opening to me tell me more about that
871
00:31:48,566 --> 00:31:49,100
yeah yeah
872
00:31:49,100 --> 00:31:49,416
I I'm
873
00:31:49,416 --> 00:31:54,116
I'm a big like zip your mouth shut coach
874
00:31:54,333 --> 00:31:58,550
yeah I'm not a let's name the feelings coach
875
00:31:58,766 --> 00:32:03,100
because what I've seen over 20 years of doing this
876
00:32:03,100 --> 00:32:06,250
is that 99.9% of the time
877
00:32:06,250 --> 00:32:07,566
when we try to like
878
00:32:07,566 --> 00:32:11,500
name the feeling or if we are moving in with
879
00:32:11,500 --> 00:32:15,050
like you said this lecture about life and balance
880
00:32:15,050 --> 00:32:16,750
and all the things that are
881
00:32:16,850 --> 00:32:19,666
you know important to us and rightly so
882
00:32:20,333 --> 00:32:23,333
it doesn't land yeah right
883
00:32:23,333 --> 00:32:24,700
it doesn't land in that moment
884
00:32:24,700 --> 00:32:27,300
but it often also doesn't land outside the moment
885
00:32:27,300 --> 00:32:27,766
right and
886
00:32:27,766 --> 00:32:29,850
and I'm just very pragmatic
887
00:32:29,850 --> 00:32:30,900
if you're coming to me
888
00:32:30,900 --> 00:32:33,050
like there's aggression going on
889
00:32:33,050 --> 00:32:34,333
or your boy is struggling
890
00:32:34,333 --> 00:32:36,050
like I want things to go better
891
00:32:36,050 --> 00:32:37,050
and I know that they
892
00:32:37,050 --> 00:32:40,950
can and that's just not gonna help it
893
00:32:40,966 --> 00:32:43,250
I just say to parents straight up like okay
894
00:32:43,250 --> 00:32:44,600
I would just say to you like
895
00:32:44,616 --> 00:32:46,500
how's that going for you Sean
896
00:32:46,500 --> 00:32:48,633
is that working yeah
897
00:32:49,700 --> 00:32:50,600
is that working
898
00:32:51,966 --> 00:32:53,866
yeah and it doesn't work
899
00:32:53,900 --> 00:32:55,133
and it doesn't work I mean
900
00:32:55,133 --> 00:32:57,533
one of the one of the things that I realized and
901
00:32:57,533 --> 00:32:59,766
and it goes back to that metaphor of the Sherlock
902
00:32:59,766 --> 00:33:02,033
Holmes brain versus the cone on the barbarian brain
903
00:33:02,133 --> 00:33:04,116
the the kids in cone on the barbarian bro
904
00:33:04,566 --> 00:33:10,550
and if you try and use Sherlock tools to
905
00:33:10,566 --> 00:33:13,350
to get to him in in Conan mode
906
00:33:13,416 --> 00:33:14,300
it's not gonna happen
907
00:33:14,300 --> 00:33:16,266
it's exactly the same thing if I'm
908
00:33:16,316 --> 00:33:19,000
you know having a yelling screaming fight with my wife
909
00:33:19,300 --> 00:33:20,733
it's not gonna it's not gonna happen
910
00:33:20,733 --> 00:33:21,966
it doesn't work with adults either
911
00:33:21,966 --> 00:33:23,650
it sure as heck isn't gonna work with a
912
00:33:23,650 --> 00:33:26,016
with a with a 5 year old kid yeah
913
00:33:26,016 --> 00:33:27,133
no I agree
914
00:33:27,133 --> 00:33:27,566
I I
915
00:33:27,566 --> 00:33:28,566
I I really agree
916
00:33:28,566 --> 00:33:29,616
and I think there's just like
917
00:33:29,616 --> 00:33:31,766
a fundamental misunderstanding also
918
00:33:31,766 --> 00:33:36,133
just about why they're acting out in this way
919
00:33:36,133 --> 00:33:39,833
and there's I talk about the the can versus the won't
920
00:33:39,933 --> 00:33:42,216
and I think when we're responding in that way
921
00:33:42,216 --> 00:33:43,900
with the lectures and whatnot
922
00:33:43,900 --> 00:33:46,733
we're in the mindset of my kid
923
00:33:46,733 --> 00:33:49,650
you know won't do what he knows is right
924
00:33:49,650 --> 00:33:52,116
or won't do what he should do
925
00:33:52,166 --> 00:33:52,650
um and
926
00:33:52,650 --> 00:33:55,766
and that's a really disempowering place to be like
927
00:33:55,766 --> 00:33:56,816
I don't even care if it's true
928
00:33:56,816 --> 00:33:58,966
or not it just is disempowering for us
929
00:33:58,966 --> 00:34:01,666
I would much rather have you in that mindset of
930
00:34:01,766 --> 00:34:03,300
he's doing the best he can
931
00:34:03,300 --> 00:34:04,333
always like yeah
932
00:34:04,333 --> 00:34:06,766
he just can't do better right now
933
00:34:06,766 --> 00:34:09,216
which isn't to say we're gonna excuse the behavior
934
00:34:09,216 --> 00:34:10,416
but what it does is
935
00:34:10,416 --> 00:34:13,216
it makes us refocus back on ourselves
936
00:34:13,216 --> 00:34:15,766
yeah and think about how can we modify what we're doing
937
00:34:15,766 --> 00:34:18,100
whether that be with limits or connection or
938
00:34:18,100 --> 00:34:18,850
you know play
939
00:34:18,850 --> 00:34:20,333
which we haven't stepped into
940
00:34:20,333 --> 00:34:22,566
but which is another thing that I really talk about
941
00:34:22,566 --> 00:34:23,650
in terms of um
942
00:34:23,650 --> 00:34:25,850
aggression like how do we use play strategically
943
00:34:25,850 --> 00:34:28,566
like how can we use these things
944
00:34:28,566 --> 00:34:31,900
to help make the situation better
945
00:34:31,900 --> 00:34:35,116
because he doesn't want to be acting this way
946
00:34:35,133 --> 00:34:37,666
he just can't do differently in this moment
947
00:34:38,133 --> 00:34:41,616
yeah and we react as I love that framing
948
00:34:41,616 --> 00:34:43,300
oh he won't behave in this way
949
00:34:43,300 --> 00:34:44,500
it's almost like saying oh
950
00:34:44,500 --> 00:34:47,733
he won't lift this 200 pound box right
951
00:34:47,733 --> 00:34:49,533
like you wouldn't say that
952
00:34:49,533 --> 00:34:51,100
but you do say it about behaviors
953
00:34:51,100 --> 00:34:52,550
well he doesn't have
954
00:34:52,566 --> 00:34:54,250
it's the same exact thing
955
00:34:54,250 --> 00:34:55,850
in the 200 pound box situation
956
00:34:55,850 --> 00:34:58,166
he doesn't have the strength
957
00:34:58,166 --> 00:34:59,916
or the skill or the muscles
958
00:35:00,450 --> 00:35:03,050
and it's exactly the same thing
959
00:35:03,050 --> 00:35:04,500
with the intellectual skills
960
00:35:04,500 --> 00:35:06,966
the intellectual muscles the intellectual strength
961
00:35:06,966 --> 00:35:10,366
he doesn't have to be able to adjust his behavior
962
00:35:10,366 --> 00:35:11,850
it's the exact same thing
963
00:35:11,850 --> 00:35:13,466
and yet we treat it differently
964
00:35:14,016 --> 00:35:14,966
I agree I
965
00:35:14,966 --> 00:35:17,133
I often use a broken arm example because I
966
00:35:17,133 --> 00:35:19,566
think parents really get it as I'll say to them
967
00:35:19,566 --> 00:35:23,366
look if he broke his arm and he had um
968
00:35:23,366 --> 00:35:24,100
you know a
969
00:35:24,100 --> 00:35:27,233
something that he had to write for school for homework
970
00:35:27,466 --> 00:35:27,933
and his
971
00:35:27,933 --> 00:35:29,966
he was right handed and his right arm was in a cast
972
00:35:29,966 --> 00:35:31,766
and he couldn't hold a pencil right
973
00:35:31,766 --> 00:35:33,966
you wouldn't be yelling and screaming him
974
00:35:33,966 --> 00:35:35,016
screaming at him about
975
00:35:35,016 --> 00:35:37,166
you know like get that pencil in your hand
976
00:35:37,166 --> 00:35:39,133
you need to write this homework out
977
00:35:39,133 --> 00:35:41,500
you know you wouldn't you would get creative
978
00:35:41,500 --> 00:35:43,366
you'd you'd be like alright
979
00:35:43,366 --> 00:35:46,416
well do you want to dictate and all write it or
980
00:35:46,416 --> 00:35:46,816
you know
981
00:35:46,816 --> 00:35:50,250
maybe there's some AI tool that you could use to do it
982
00:35:50,250 --> 00:35:52,333
right you'd help them get creative
983
00:35:52,333 --> 00:35:53,250
yeah and
984
00:35:53,250 --> 00:35:54,733
and we gotta do the same thing
985
00:35:54,733 --> 00:35:56,966
when it's just an emotional hurt
986
00:35:56,966 --> 00:35:58,916
rather than a physical hurt
987
00:36:00,050 --> 00:36:01,850
so let me ask you a provocative question of
988
00:36:01,850 --> 00:36:03,216
something that I've been thinking a lot about
989
00:36:03,216 --> 00:36:05,700
because what this brings to mind is that
990
00:36:05,700 --> 00:36:07,700
when you sit down and lecture them or or
991
00:36:07,700 --> 00:36:10,550
you know treat them as if they're not doing their best
992
00:36:10,933 --> 00:36:12,900
uh or they're doing it intentionally
993
00:36:12,900 --> 00:36:15,150
essentially what you're doing is shaming them
994
00:36:15,333 --> 00:36:18,450
you're you're kind of trying to make them feel shame
995
00:36:18,450 --> 00:36:20,066
for not doing the right thing
996
00:36:20,450 --> 00:36:23,366
and I have a hypothesis
997
00:36:23,366 --> 00:36:26,066
and I want your feedback on it is
998
00:36:26,100 --> 00:36:29,033
and the hypothesis is that there's never actually
999
00:36:29,216 --> 00:36:32,400
a valid use for shame as a parent
1000
00:36:32,733 --> 00:36:34,350
what is your reaction to that
1001
00:36:35,216 --> 00:36:37,650
I love that you're asking me that question right now
1002
00:36:37,650 --> 00:36:40,000
because I've been thinking about it a lot
1003
00:36:40,450 --> 00:36:41,316
um
1004
00:36:41,866 --> 00:36:43,216
I've been thinking about it a lot
1005
00:36:43,216 --> 00:36:46,233
because I recently did a training
1006
00:36:46,250 --> 00:36:48,533
I'm now trained in the space program
1007
00:36:48,533 --> 00:36:51,016
it's a program that Eli Lebowitz at Yale
1008
00:36:51,016 --> 00:36:55,216
put together to help kids with anxiety and OCD okay
1009
00:36:55,216 --> 00:36:59,000
and during that training um
1010
00:36:59,533 --> 00:37:02,233
there was a section around aggression
1011
00:37:02,766 --> 00:37:04,366
and a lot of what he does
1012
00:37:04,366 --> 00:37:07,050
and what he teaches is very similar to what I do
1013
00:37:07,050 --> 00:37:10,416
but one thing really struck me
1014
00:37:10,416 --> 00:37:13,350
and I'm trying to play around with it right now
1015
00:37:13,450 --> 00:37:16,866
and he said um
1016
00:37:18,616 --> 00:37:22,250
that if we think about like domestic violence right
1017
00:37:22,250 --> 00:37:24,366
if there's a if there's aggression in the home
1018
00:37:24,366 --> 00:37:27,433
let's just say one parent is being um
1019
00:37:27,450 --> 00:37:29,200
violent towards another
1020
00:37:30,616 --> 00:37:32,350
secrecy is a problem
1021
00:37:33,166 --> 00:37:33,500
right
1022
00:37:33,500 --> 00:37:38,833
we need to go public with it to protect the person
1023
00:37:38,900 --> 00:37:41,800
and to move forward on the healing
1024
00:37:43,450 --> 00:37:45,566
you know on the healing journey
1025
00:37:45,566 --> 00:37:46,716
yeah absolutely
1026
00:37:46,766 --> 00:37:50,266
and he said it's the same thing with this aggression
1027
00:37:51,050 --> 00:37:54,050
and he said something to the effect of
1028
00:37:54,050 --> 00:37:56,333
I'm totally paraphrasing that
1029
00:37:56,333 --> 00:37:58,616
that like a little bit of shame is okay
1030
00:37:58,616 --> 00:38:01,866
is useful for the child
1031
00:38:02,050 --> 00:38:06,350
in terms of being able to stop the aggression
1032
00:38:06,933 --> 00:38:10,833
I'm not saying I agree or I disagree
1033
00:38:10,900 --> 00:38:15,250
I'm simply playing with this right now with clients um
1034
00:38:15,250 --> 00:38:16,733
in a way that I haven't before
1035
00:38:16,733 --> 00:38:19,616
so part we talked earlier about setting up for success
1036
00:38:19,616 --> 00:38:21,250
and setting ourselves up for success
1037
00:38:21,250 --> 00:38:25,250
right when we're first starting to address aggression
1038
00:38:25,250 --> 00:38:26,766
and one of the things there is
1039
00:38:26,766 --> 00:38:30,200
is like I said are there people that we need to tell
1040
00:38:30,250 --> 00:38:32,450
um how do we use the resources in our life
1041
00:38:32,450 --> 00:38:35,233
and he introduced an idea that I hadn't
1042
00:38:35,400 --> 00:38:36,333
I thought about
1043
00:38:36,333 --> 00:38:39,616
which is to use what he calls supporters in a
1044
00:38:39,616 --> 00:38:43,733
in a really specific way where the child knows that
1045
00:38:43,733 --> 00:38:45,666
each time they're aggressive
1046
00:38:47,533 --> 00:38:50,800
we are going to tell that adult
1047
00:38:52,533 --> 00:38:53,800
that supporter
1048
00:38:53,966 --> 00:38:57,416
and then that supporter reaches out to the child
1049
00:38:57,416 --> 00:39:00,450
now what's interesting here is that yes
1050
00:39:00,450 --> 00:39:00,650
right
1051
00:39:00,650 --> 00:39:04,050
there's a little bit of shame there because any of us
1052
00:39:04,050 --> 00:39:05,316
when we do something
1053
00:39:05,900 --> 00:39:09,300
you know mean or hurtful to somebody we love and and
1054
00:39:09,300 --> 00:39:11,900
and we know other people we care about know about it
1055
00:39:11,900 --> 00:39:13,416
we feel shame yeah
1056
00:39:13,416 --> 00:39:15,266
but we also wanna do better
1057
00:39:15,333 --> 00:39:16,133
yeah
1058
00:39:16,500 --> 00:39:18,450
and the way that the
1059
00:39:18,450 --> 00:39:22,833
that supporter comes in and talks to the child
1060
00:39:22,850 --> 00:39:24,766
is very aligned with everything
1061
00:39:24,766 --> 00:39:26,666
that we've been talking about here
1062
00:39:26,733 --> 00:39:28,616
it's supportive it's loving
1063
00:39:28,616 --> 00:39:29,733
it's like you know I
1064
00:39:29,733 --> 00:39:32,016
I love you you're a great kid
1065
00:39:32,016 --> 00:39:35,966
like I know you don't want to hurt your mom um
1066
00:39:35,966 --> 00:39:38,000
you know I heard from her that
1067
00:39:38,300 --> 00:39:41,516
after she asked you to turn off your Roblox yesterday
1068
00:39:41,650 --> 00:39:43,650
that you punched her um
1069
00:39:43,650 --> 00:39:46,050
you know we know that's not okay
1070
00:39:46,050 --> 00:39:51,233
so next time you feel that um how about you
1071
00:39:52,966 --> 00:39:54,900
shoot me a text or how about
1072
00:39:54,900 --> 00:39:57,016
you call me or I don't know
1073
00:39:57,016 --> 00:39:58,616
like I'm just making this up on the spot or
1074
00:39:58,616 --> 00:39:58,766
or or
1075
00:39:58,766 --> 00:40:01,516
or what what do you think we should do next time
1076
00:40:01,816 --> 00:40:03,416
what do you think we should exactly what's our plan
1077
00:40:03,416 --> 00:40:04,716
so there's yeah something
1078
00:40:06,533 --> 00:40:08,366
I love that you just asked me about shame
1079
00:40:08,366 --> 00:40:10,733
because two weeks ago I would have said
1080
00:40:10,733 --> 00:40:12,133
there's no place for shame
1081
00:40:12,133 --> 00:40:13,566
no shame never
1082
00:40:13,566 --> 00:40:15,566
we don't want to shame a child yeah
1083
00:40:15,566 --> 00:40:18,050
and I'm always open to learning because like I said
1084
00:40:18,050 --> 00:40:20,333
I'm very pragmatic I want the aggression to stop
1085
00:40:20,333 --> 00:40:22,600
I mean I have great success with families
1086
00:40:22,650 --> 00:40:25,433
but if we can do it faster um
1087
00:40:25,450 --> 00:40:25,850
and and
1088
00:40:25,850 --> 00:40:29,533
and more efficiently and stop the aggression sooner
1089
00:40:29,533 --> 00:40:31,766
in a way that's still supportive of the child
1090
00:40:31,766 --> 00:40:34,250
you bet I'm in on that so I'm playing around with this
1091
00:40:34,250 --> 00:40:35,650
so I don't know I
1092
00:40:35,650 --> 00:40:37,700
I and I've been thinking a lot about it too
1093
00:40:37,700 --> 00:40:41,333
and what but what one of the things so I've got
1094
00:40:41,333 --> 00:40:42,616
I've got a couple of thoughts on it
1095
00:40:42,616 --> 00:40:44,666
that I'd love to share and get your feedback on
1096
00:40:44,966 --> 00:40:49,016
one of them is that I feel like shame is a tool
1097
00:40:49,016 --> 00:40:52,150
that our society and our culture uses
1098
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to communicate this favor
1099
00:40:54,300 --> 00:40:56,466
and it is really powerful
1100
00:40:56,533 --> 00:40:57,466
our
1101
00:40:58,450 --> 00:40:59,300
our feeling
1102
00:40:59,300 --> 00:41:03,366
our need to be part of the herd is so strong
1103
00:41:03,366 --> 00:41:06,850
that when we start to feel that shame
1104
00:41:06,850 --> 00:41:08,066
that societal shame
1105
00:41:08,333 --> 00:41:12,700
it becomes such a powerful force we almost want we
1106
00:41:12,700 --> 00:41:13,100
can't
1107
00:41:13,100 --> 00:41:16,400
we feel like we can't live without getting rid of it
1108
00:41:16,766 --> 00:41:20,533
and that's one thing another thing is
1109
00:41:20,533 --> 00:41:22,616
so it's really really powerful
1110
00:41:22,616 --> 00:41:25,416
but as with many powerful things
1111
00:41:25,416 --> 00:41:28,266
it loses its effectiveness if it's overused
1112
00:41:28,366 --> 00:41:30,233
and so if you
1113
00:41:30,933 --> 00:41:33,200
continuously shame somebody
1114
00:41:33,333 --> 00:41:35,650
eventually they're gonna become immune to shame
1115
00:41:35,650 --> 00:41:38,416
which is actually a much worse problem
1116
00:41:38,416 --> 00:41:41,616
than whatever it is that you think you're solving
1117
00:41:41,616 --> 00:41:42,800
by shaming people
1118
00:41:42,800 --> 00:41:45,733
so that's another observation that I think is true yeah
1119
00:41:45,733 --> 00:41:47,116
what do you think about those two things
1120
00:41:47,133 --> 00:41:48,100
well I think I
1121
00:41:48,100 --> 00:41:52,766
I'll just say that I think shame as a tool is horrible
1122
00:41:52,766 --> 00:41:55,200
yeah shame is not a parenting tool
1123
00:41:55,566 --> 00:41:56,800
let's just there is OK
1124
00:41:56,816 --> 00:41:57,816
that that that's
1125
00:41:57,816 --> 00:42:00,316
that's probably a principle that that we can
1126
00:42:00,533 --> 00:42:02,016
that is probably well established
1127
00:42:02,016 --> 00:42:02,733
I agree
1128
00:42:02,850 --> 00:42:03,333
yeah I
1129
00:42:03,333 --> 00:42:03,500
I I
1130
00:42:03,500 --> 00:42:07,950
I don't think our goal is ever to use shame
1131
00:42:08,166 --> 00:42:10,216
to transform behavior yeah
1132
00:42:10,216 --> 00:42:13,416
um I'm just getting curious with this new thing
1133
00:42:13,416 --> 00:42:18,866
if there's a way to bring something that
1134
00:42:19,100 --> 00:42:21,633
you know Brene Brown talks about shame
1135
00:42:22,016 --> 00:42:25,566
some kind of to paraphrase sloppily um
1136
00:42:25,566 --> 00:42:27,466
you know grows in in darkness
1137
00:42:27,533 --> 00:42:29,450
yes and so
1138
00:42:29,450 --> 00:42:32,833
we don't want to keep that aggression locked up
1139
00:42:33,050 --> 00:42:34,500
in a dark room right
1140
00:42:34,500 --> 00:42:39,950
because that child is feeling ashamed and ashamed
1141
00:42:39,966 --> 00:42:41,700
because of what he has done
1142
00:42:41,700 --> 00:42:44,100
and is doing continually with the aggression
1143
00:42:44,100 --> 00:42:46,300
hurting somebody that he loves yeah
1144
00:42:46,300 --> 00:42:48,466
so that shame is growing anyway
1145
00:42:48,616 --> 00:42:50,166
so I'm going like well
1146
00:42:50,166 --> 00:42:52,216
can we how do we compare
1147
00:42:52,216 --> 00:42:53,200
that shame
1148
00:42:54,216 --> 00:42:57,933
with the tinge of shame that he might feel
1149
00:42:57,933 --> 00:42:59,666
if I tell grandma
1150
00:43:00,016 --> 00:43:02,500
but grandma comes back lovingly saying
1151
00:43:02,500 --> 00:43:04,216
I know this is hard
1152
00:43:04,216 --> 00:43:08,233
but I'm 100% sure that you can do it yeah
1153
00:43:08,850 --> 00:43:10,416
I heard this happened right
1154
00:43:10,416 --> 00:43:12,166
and I know it's hard to do differently
1155
00:43:12,166 --> 00:43:14,033
but let's make up another plan
1156
00:43:14,250 --> 00:43:17,733
I know it's hard but I know you can do it yeah
1157
00:43:17,733 --> 00:43:20,366
so shame is not a parenting tool
1158
00:43:20,366 --> 00:43:23,933
but maybe there's a way when it happens naturally
1159
00:43:23,933 --> 00:43:28,916
we can we can use it to our advantage
1160
00:43:29,566 --> 00:43:30,733
it's tough it's a
1161
00:43:30,733 --> 00:43:31,800
it's a tough thing
1162
00:43:32,366 --> 00:43:32,850
but I I
1163
00:43:32,850 --> 00:43:35,050
I will say one other thing on that
1164
00:43:35,050 --> 00:43:38,133
which is that there's always attention
1165
00:43:38,133 --> 00:43:42,466
and so anytime anytime I find myself thinking
1166
00:43:42,850 --> 00:43:44,816
a is always the right way to go
1167
00:43:44,816 --> 00:43:46,016
there's almost always a
1168
00:43:46,016 --> 00:43:48,216
B that is diametrically opposed to that
1169
00:43:48,216 --> 00:43:50,633
and the real answer is somewhere between a and B
1170
00:43:51,133 --> 00:43:52,466
and so never I think we get
1171
00:43:52,733 --> 00:43:53,700
go ahead well
1172
00:43:53,700 --> 00:43:55,900
I just say I think we get stuck on sort of like the
1173
00:43:55,900 --> 00:43:59,050
the little details of how we're gonna respond yeah
1174
00:43:59,050 --> 00:44:01,166
and and I think we can just be broader
1175
00:44:01,166 --> 00:44:03,450
like what if we paint it with a broader brush and say
1176
00:44:03,450 --> 00:44:05,833
OK if our child is struggling
1177
00:44:06,250 --> 00:44:08,766
they are they are needing us in some way
1178
00:44:08,766 --> 00:44:11,633
they are needing connection with us right
1179
00:44:11,650 --> 00:44:13,266
um and so
1180
00:44:13,566 --> 00:44:15,700
what's a way that we can offer them connection
1181
00:44:15,700 --> 00:44:17,816
right now and that way might be different than
1182
00:44:17,816 --> 00:44:19,300
it was five minutes ago
1183
00:44:19,300 --> 00:44:21,600
and it might be different than it looks in an hour
1184
00:44:21,933 --> 00:44:23,766
and it might be different than it looks tomorrow
1185
00:44:23,766 --> 00:44:26,100
but yeah we're always asking ourselves
1186
00:44:26,100 --> 00:44:28,633
like I'm always wanting us to be asking ourselves
1187
00:44:28,766 --> 00:44:30,850
how can I help that child
1188
00:44:30,850 --> 00:44:34,033
like in Dan Seagals word how can I help him feel felt
1189
00:44:34,450 --> 00:44:37,216
uh huh feel my love just because your parents well
1190
00:44:37,216 --> 00:44:38,333
I do love him okay
1191
00:44:38,333 --> 00:44:39,616
it's like great
1192
00:44:39,616 --> 00:44:41,050
I love my kids too
1193
00:44:41,050 --> 00:44:43,816
sometimes they feel that and sometimes they don't
1194
00:44:43,816 --> 00:44:46,150
depending on how I'm showing up
1195
00:44:46,450 --> 00:44:48,850
and what state they're in right
1196
00:44:48,850 --> 00:44:52,450
so if we just put connection at the forefront
1197
00:44:52,450 --> 00:44:55,950
I think the details kind of fall into place
1198
00:44:56,900 --> 00:44:59,050
yeah I think that's a beautiful way to
1199
00:44:59,050 --> 00:45:00,966
to cut the knot I
1200
00:45:00,966 --> 00:45:05,250
you mentioned something about a play and I wanted
1201
00:45:05,250 --> 00:45:07,950
I wanted to let you riff on that for a moment
1202
00:45:08,216 --> 00:45:12,833
talk to me about the the need for boys to play
1203
00:45:13,733 --> 00:45:14,416
yeah I mean
1204
00:45:14,416 --> 00:45:17,350
I think human beings in general need to play
1205
00:45:17,733 --> 00:45:21,733
and I think boys often times
1206
00:45:21,733 --> 00:45:26,216
not always but often times play rougher than um
1207
00:45:26,216 --> 00:45:28,433
a lot of people are comfortable with
1208
00:45:28,966 --> 00:45:34,333
and so I think that we have to work on ourselves
1209
00:45:34,333 --> 00:45:36,250
so that we can get a little bit more comfortable
1210
00:45:36,250 --> 00:45:37,700
with that rough and tumble
1211
00:45:37,700 --> 00:45:38,616
kind of play
1212
00:45:38,616 --> 00:45:41,766
if that's something that our boy really thrives on
1213
00:45:41,766 --> 00:45:42,533
and so for example
1214
00:45:42,533 --> 00:45:45,266
like often times I'll have a mom come to me and
1215
00:45:45,450 --> 00:45:46,733
caught two boys and
1216
00:45:46,733 --> 00:45:48,566
and they're going at each other hard
1217
00:45:48,566 --> 00:45:50,100
like they wrestle and they're rolling
1218
00:45:50,100 --> 00:45:52,016
and they're jumping and they're doing all the things
1219
00:45:52,016 --> 00:45:54,533
and often someone will end up getting hurt at the end
1220
00:45:54,533 --> 00:45:56,516
and she's going she's like
1221
00:45:56,566 --> 00:45:58,050
they're killing each other
1222
00:45:58,050 --> 00:46:00,416
they're hurting she's trying to stop them and
1223
00:46:00,416 --> 00:46:01,616
and I would suggest let's
1224
00:46:01,616 --> 00:46:03,666
let's start by asking them like
1225
00:46:04,133 --> 00:46:05,566
do y'all want some help here
1226
00:46:05,566 --> 00:46:07,566
are you doing OK because
1227
00:46:07,566 --> 00:46:09,100
our perception of what's going on
1228
00:46:09,100 --> 00:46:11,950
is often very different from what's going on for them
1229
00:46:12,133 --> 00:46:13,966
and so I just think we wanna be sensitive
1230
00:46:13,966 --> 00:46:14,766
there's no again
1231
00:46:14,766 --> 00:46:17,733
there's no one one thing that's always gonna be true
1232
00:46:17,733 --> 00:46:20,800
every child is different but in general
1233
00:46:20,900 --> 00:46:24,400
rough and tumble play is a great way to connect
1234
00:46:24,466 --> 00:46:26,166
yeah sweating together
1235
00:46:26,166 --> 00:46:27,216
laughing together
1236
00:46:27,216 --> 00:46:29,816
whether you're adults or children or adults at
1237
00:46:29,816 --> 00:46:31,366
with children like it
1238
00:46:31,366 --> 00:46:32,316
it it
1239
00:46:32,650 --> 00:46:36,500
it breeds connection which is what we want right
1240
00:46:36,500 --> 00:46:38,450
we laugh together we feel closer
1241
00:46:38,450 --> 00:46:40,600
we sweat we feel closer
1242
00:46:40,700 --> 00:46:42,016
we we get bonked
1243
00:46:42,016 --> 00:46:44,066
we get to support each other when we're hurt
1244
00:46:44,100 --> 00:46:46,250
it builds connection it builds closeness
1245
00:46:46,250 --> 00:46:50,050
and those are all things that are like the
1246
00:46:50,050 --> 00:46:52,633
the foundation for the sort of
1247
00:46:53,050 --> 00:46:55,400
whole house that we need to build around
1248
00:46:55,550 --> 00:46:56,700
the aggression falling away
1249
00:46:56,700 --> 00:46:57,966
I think that's not a good metaphor
1250
00:46:57,966 --> 00:46:59,666
but essentially like we need
1251
00:46:59,700 --> 00:47:02,333
we need that we need that rough and tumble
1252
00:47:02,333 --> 00:47:03,733
yeah and and
1253
00:47:03,733 --> 00:47:05,616
and often times parents that I work with have to
1254
00:47:05,616 --> 00:47:08,700
work through some discomfort around that
1255
00:47:08,700 --> 00:47:11,933
or they go too hard yeah
1256
00:47:11,933 --> 00:47:13,816
right there are some parents who are just like
1257
00:47:13,816 --> 00:47:15,650
yeah let's get in there and play
1258
00:47:15,650 --> 00:47:17,216
but they're like pummeling the kid
1259
00:47:17,216 --> 00:47:20,000
right with the pillow and he's like wow
1260
00:47:20,133 --> 00:47:21,333
this is too hard yeah
1261
00:47:21,333 --> 00:47:22,616
we need to be aware like
1262
00:47:22,616 --> 00:47:23,450
the idea isn't like
1263
00:47:23,450 --> 00:47:25,216
as the parent that we're gonna like
1264
00:47:25,216 --> 00:47:27,616
you know play the crap out of our kid
1265
00:47:27,616 --> 00:47:28,833
no it's like
1266
00:47:29,100 --> 00:47:32,300
let them win if they're little and if they're bigger
1267
00:47:32,300 --> 00:47:36,050
you still kind of wanna give them a chance
1268
00:47:36,050 --> 00:47:37,250
you gotta play harder right
1269
00:47:37,250 --> 00:47:38,500
cause it's not fun for them
1270
00:47:38,500 --> 00:47:39,650
if you're gonna 10 year old
1271
00:47:39,650 --> 00:47:41,100
and you're playing as if he's three
1272
00:47:41,100 --> 00:47:43,966
it's not fun you have to up the resistance
1273
00:47:43,966 --> 00:47:45,566
but you're gonna play with that to
1274
00:47:45,566 --> 00:47:48,600
to the level where there's laughter happening
1275
00:47:48,616 --> 00:47:50,366
and the last thing I'll just say about this is
1276
00:47:50,366 --> 00:47:52,466
when we have aggression um
1277
00:47:52,966 --> 00:47:54,133
parents often feel like
1278
00:47:54,133 --> 00:47:57,066
if they're playful in their response
1279
00:47:57,416 --> 00:48:00,733
that it's condoning the behavior
1280
00:48:00,733 --> 00:48:02,733
yeah and I just really want to say out loud that
1281
00:48:02,733 --> 00:48:05,300
that is not the case our goal is to connect
1282
00:48:05,300 --> 00:48:07,600
our goal is to help our child
1283
00:48:07,966 --> 00:48:11,250
sense that we see his goodness underneath the behaviors
1284
00:48:11,250 --> 00:48:13,066
and that we're gonna help him through
1285
00:48:13,416 --> 00:48:15,333
and play is a great way to do that
1286
00:48:15,333 --> 00:48:16,933
it's not sending the message okay
1287
00:48:16,933 --> 00:48:19,566
your behavior is okay it's sending the message okay
1288
00:48:19,566 --> 00:48:21,200
I see you're struggling
1289
00:48:21,400 --> 00:48:23,216
I'm not gonna take those behaviors
1290
00:48:23,216 --> 00:48:24,133
seriously
1291
00:48:24,133 --> 00:48:26,416
I'm gonna try to get at you from another angle
1292
00:48:26,416 --> 00:48:30,133
I'm being strategic in my parenting yeah
1293
00:48:30,133 --> 00:48:32,100
you're almost modeling okay look
1294
00:48:32,100 --> 00:48:33,100
this is an appropriate
1295
00:48:33,100 --> 00:48:35,016
way to get the thing that you're after
1296
00:48:35,016 --> 00:48:37,466
over in this inappropriate behavior
1297
00:48:37,700 --> 00:48:39,016
yeah yeah
1298
00:48:39,016 --> 00:48:40,250
I like that a lot
1299
00:48:40,333 --> 00:48:42,100
if there are people out there right now
1300
00:48:42,100 --> 00:48:46,516
who are dealing with aggressive kids
1301
00:48:47,050 --> 00:48:49,100
what should they do if they want help right away
1302
00:48:49,100 --> 00:48:50,066
what should they do
1303
00:48:51,100 --> 00:48:53,733
yeah I have a few ways that I help parents
1304
00:48:53,733 --> 00:48:56,516
so if aggression is the No. 1 issue
1305
00:48:56,733 --> 00:48:59,016
um I have a course called out with aggression
1306
00:48:59,016 --> 00:49:01,100
a step by step practice to stop your voice
1307
00:49:01,100 --> 00:49:03,716
aggressive behavior and lift your parenting confidence
1308
00:49:03,933 --> 00:49:06,166
and I can give you the link to that
1309
00:49:06,166 --> 00:49:09,450
and it's a course that brings you through all the steps
1310
00:49:09,450 --> 00:49:13,566
that I just mentioned but with live support
1311
00:49:13,566 --> 00:49:14,700
so I will be there
1312
00:49:14,700 --> 00:49:17,016
and there's a community of people who will be there
1313
00:49:17,016 --> 00:49:19,133
to answer your questions and to cheer you on
1314
00:49:19,133 --> 00:49:20,916
and all of that so it's not just
1315
00:49:20,950 --> 00:49:21,700
you know here
1316
00:49:21,700 --> 00:49:23,333
go figure it out um
1317
00:49:23,333 --> 00:49:25,300
so if aggression is top of mind
1318
00:49:25,300 --> 00:49:27,766
and that is something that you're ready to commit to
1319
00:49:27,766 --> 00:49:29,766
nipping in the bud and you're ready to start
1320
00:49:29,766 --> 00:49:31,550
that would be the best place to start
1321
00:49:31,650 --> 00:49:32,216
if
1322
00:49:32,216 --> 00:49:35,416
a group experience is something that you've discovered
1323
00:49:35,416 --> 00:49:36,816
doesn't work well for you
1324
00:49:36,816 --> 00:49:38,833
you tend to not show up and you need
1325
00:49:39,000 --> 00:49:40,250
you know the personal trainer
1326
00:49:40,250 --> 00:49:43,116
I do have one on one coaching as well
1327
00:49:43,450 --> 00:49:44,166
that could be
1328
00:49:44,166 --> 00:49:45,333
because you're struggling with aggression
1329
00:49:45,333 --> 00:49:48,533
in your family it could also be for you know anxiety
1330
00:49:48,533 --> 00:49:51,616
it could be for sleep issues or sibling issues
1331
00:49:51,616 --> 00:49:54,616
or whatever I do do one on one coaching
1332
00:49:54,616 --> 00:49:57,500
and then lastly if you feel like
1333
00:49:57,500 --> 00:50:00,450
you know things are a little bit rocky
1334
00:50:00,450 --> 00:50:03,366
not horrible but a little bit rocky or you know
1335
00:50:03,366 --> 00:50:04,216
they're okay
1336
00:50:04,216 --> 00:50:07,050
but you just want to be in a community of parents
1337
00:50:07,050 --> 00:50:10,216
who are committed to parenting their boys peacefully
1338
00:50:10,216 --> 00:50:12,700
and protecting that their boys right to
1339
00:50:12,700 --> 00:50:14,966
to feel and process emotions
1340
00:50:14,966 --> 00:50:17,700
and grow into emotionally intelligent men
1341
00:50:17,700 --> 00:50:19,733
and just want to be in a community of people who are
1342
00:50:19,733 --> 00:50:21,250
actively committed to that
1343
00:50:21,250 --> 00:50:23,233
and thinking about that regularly
1344
00:50:23,300 --> 00:50:24,850
I have um
1345
00:50:24,850 --> 00:50:27,533
a membership community called Parenting Boys Peacefully
1346
00:50:27,533 --> 00:50:30,433
and we would be happy to welcome you into that as well
1347
00:50:30,733 --> 00:50:32,300
I love all of those resources
1348
00:50:32,300 --> 00:50:34,816
and those links are in the show notes
1349
00:50:34,816 --> 00:50:37,450
Tasha thank you so much for taking
1350
00:50:37,450 --> 00:50:38,933
the time to be with us today
1351
00:50:38,933 --> 00:50:41,050
and sharing your wisdom I uh
1352
00:50:41,050 --> 00:50:44,300
it is so much in line with the mission of raising men
1353
00:50:44,300 --> 00:50:47,750
and I can't tell you how much I appreciate it
1354
00:50:47,900 --> 00:50:49,533
I really appreciate the opportunity
1355
00:50:49,533 --> 00:50:50,700
to share my thinking with you
1356
00:50:50,700 --> 00:50:52,650
thank you for trusting me with your audience
1357
00:50:52,650 --> 00:50:53,816
I I don't take it lightly
1358
00:50:53,816 --> 00:50:55,616
so thank you thank you
1359
00:50:55,616 --> 00:50:58,533
Tasha Shore is the founder of Parenting Voice
1360
00:50:58,533 --> 00:51:00,500
Peacefully and the out with
1361
00:51:00,500 --> 00:51:03,416
aggression program and also the author of listen
1362
00:51:03,416 --> 00:51:05,866
5 Simple Tools to meet your Everyday Parenting
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challenges check her out in the show notes and remember
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you are a great parent
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raising men is produced by Phil Hernandez
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continuously shame somebody
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eventually they're going to become immune to shame
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which is actually
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a much worse problem than whatever it is
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that you think you're solving
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by shaming people
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so that's another observation that I think is true
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well I think I
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I'll just say that I think shame as a tool is horrible
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yeah shame is not a parenting tool
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that's probably
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a principle that is probably well established I agree
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it is probably well established I agree
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hello and welcome to raising men
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I'm Shawn Dawson and today
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we're tackling one of the hardest parts
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about raising boys in my opinion
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which is aggression when our sons
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they hit or they kick or scream
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at least my gut reaction is often fear
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I'm afraid about his future
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I I draw this line into the future that
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oh my gosh
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this is the way he's gonna be when he's an adult
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I feel I fear that I'm failing and
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and often I I react or my
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gut reaction is to react with harshness or shaming
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but our guest today Tasha Shore
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points out that aggression
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it's not a sign of a bad kid
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so to speak but a signal of a frightened one
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Tasha is the founder of Parenting Boys Peacefully
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and the out with aggression program
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and she's the author of listen
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5 Simple Tools
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to meet your Everyday Parenting challenges
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she's here to show us how we can cultivate peace
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in and out of the home with our sons
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Tasha
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thank you so much for joining us on raising
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thank you so much for inviting me on
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I'm excited for this conversation
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me too
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me too
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so you talk about something that I
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it just absolutely struck me when I encountered it
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and that is the bad guy myth
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and the way that I would describe that
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and please correct me if I'm wrong
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is that the I we
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it's this idea that we mislabel boys as troublemakers
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when actually they're just struggling
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they're trying to make it work
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and so for example
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data from the center for Social Justice
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shows that boys are twice as likely to get in trouble
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at school as girls
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and I think this is a symptom of that how much of that
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lost boy trajectory
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starts with misinterpreting their reactivity
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as a character flaw rather than an emotional signal
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I think a lot of it starts with that
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and I think you touched on something which is equally
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important which is the fear that we feel as a result
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because our fear is then driving our response
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so we're in a fear cycle they're scared and acting out
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and then we're scared and acting out
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and then we spiral down together
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and so in order to get us out of this um
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sort of world world pool
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somebody's got to change
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and if there's one thing we know
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is that we can't change anybody else
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so we gotta start with ourselves
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yeah and we're the ones with the
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the fully developed prefrontal cortex
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we're the ones who you know
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can control what we're doing
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and by the way
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we're the ones who are supposed to be training our sons
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to to be effective in the world right
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absolutely and
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and it's possible I think people feel like
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you know I've got so much baggage
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I'm I'm 30
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I'm 40 I'm 50
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you know my parents parented me in a certain way
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yeah I want to stop yelling
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I want to do things differently
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but I just can't and I
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I wanna say that you absolutely can it
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I see people change all the time
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but just before we got on this recording
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I was working with a couple
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uh from Ireland
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I have been working with this couple
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on and off for the last few years
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and she got on and told me like
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I just want to tell you like
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I scheduled this not because
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there's a crisis everything is going really
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really well but I just wanted to have you in my world
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and be able to bounce ideas
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and I asked how her husband was doing
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and she said one of the biggest things that's shifted
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in their family
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and that has helped to stop the aggression
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is that they used to have this cycle where
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and they also have three boys like I did or do
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and they're now men that's why I said did right and and
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one of the boys would get aggressive about something
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or the two you know
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two of them would go at each other
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and dad would just get all fired up and get scared
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do that you know
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forward fear thinking that you were just talking about
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oh my God
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what is gonna happen they're gonna kill each other
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they're gonna hate each other
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blah blah
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blah and he would start yelling and and and
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and being harsh and shaming and all of those things
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and they would spiral
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and she said he doesn't lose it anymore
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that has completely shifted the dynamics in the family
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what a powerful statement
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I mean
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just think about what that's like from his experience
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I feel this because I was kind of that way early on
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I found that my son could push buttons in me
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that I didn't know I have
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ordinarily
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my whole life I've been this real level headed guy
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I don't I'm not quick to anger anything like that
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but then I found that my son could trigger rage in me
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in a way that no one has ever been able to do
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yeah surprise surprise yeah
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this is what our kids do to us yeah
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it it's
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it's it's absolutely amazing
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and um
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it was a real unlock for me
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when I finally realized that
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I was screaming at him to calm down
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I was like wait a minute
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that's insane like
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he's not gonna calm down because I'm screaming at him
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it's gonna it's only gonna make things worse
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and I realized we were in the toilet bowl
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absolutely and
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and the thing is we feel so badly when we do that
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we don't want to do that you didn't want to do that
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that's right it's just
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it's just the fallback when our toolboxes are empty
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when we're running on empty
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it's just what comes out automatically
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it's what was done to us it's what we see in the movies
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we we have to retrain our brains
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we have to retrain ourselves
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in order to respond differently
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and like you said earlier
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like one of the things that's really gonna help
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is to reframe aggression as not the sign of
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oh my God
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this kid is totally screwed up and he's a psychopath
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and he's a horrible person
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but this is some form of communication
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like he is struggling he is hurting inside
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he is likely scared his
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his his radar right
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his limbic system in his brain
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is sensing a lack of safety
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even if you don't see that
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and he's responding accordingly
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so if we can get curious there's lots that we can do
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I I love that term about getting curious or
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or reacting with compassion
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instead of as a way I have to tamp down this activity
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this this reactivity that he's having
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otherwise
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he's going to grow up into be a man and beat people up
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right right
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so what
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once we have that recognition
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have this intellectual understanding
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okay this is a fear response from him
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now what do we do
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well I think we always start with ourselves
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so I always when I'm working with a family
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that's struggling with aggression
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the first place we're gonna start well
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the first place we're gonna start is like safety
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but part of that is how we respond
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so I like to start off with parents and talk about
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how do we get you into good enough parenting shape
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notice not perfect parenting shape
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not I'm never gonna make a mistake
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not I'm never gonna wish I said
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or did something differently
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but good enough
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that's all all I gotta do is good enough
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yeah and so
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that could be different things for different people
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it might be getting uh
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support in in terms of like
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having the physical presence of another person
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it might be
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having somebody on the other end of a phone line
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in case you need to call them for support
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it it could look a lot of different ways
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it might be simply telling your partner
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or whoever is living with you in your house
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that you're gonna do some experiments um
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in terms of responding to aggression
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differently than you have in the past and
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and communicating with them what their role could be
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or what you want them or don't want them to do
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how they can be involved or how could they
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they can be helpful
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or maybe the helpful is that they just stay
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stay back and let you do this for a while
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and you assure them that you'll let them know
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if you need help but there's a piece about
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how do we get ourselves into good enough parenting
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shape and I just want to be clear
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like as we talk about the different aspects
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of dealing with aggression
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it's not linear right it's not like okay
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you're gonna do this
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and then you're gonna check that off
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I mean we're all working on ourselves
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for the rest of our lives yeah
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we're not gonna you know we're just
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we just want to be moving in the right direction
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so everything that we talk about is like
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it's it's a puzzle all the pieces fit together
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but I would start there
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and then we're gonna move into really strengthening
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our connection with our sweet boys
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because is the is the difference
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is the difference in
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is there a difference in the appropriate response
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when the aggression is two boys getting at it
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versus when it's a boy and a girl
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I think so I think for me
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it depends on the context and what's going on obviously
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I think for me the reason that I focus on boys is not
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it is not about sort of physiological differences
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it's more about how we
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as adults respond differently to a boy's behavior
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versus a girl's behavior and that
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I think we're lying to ourselves
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because teachers like you said right
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teachers respond differently
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administrators respond differently
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coaches respond differently
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um we respond differently
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there are studies that show that we respond differently
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to even a young baby boy's cry
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than we do to a baby girl's cry
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from a very early age in our child's life
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the world is treating them differently
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simply because they've been labeled a boy right
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that's a tremendous insight
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and it really affects it
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it I
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I I
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I once had my
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my boy got sent home from school a couple of weeks ago
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and it was because he got into a fight with a girl
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a friend of his that I mean
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they're great friends and they got in a fight
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and he ended up holding her physically
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up against a fence
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and I you know I
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got called into the principal's office
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he got called in in
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into the principal's office and it was this huge thing
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and yet if he had done that to a boy
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and he has done that to boys before
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and boys have done that to him
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it didn't turn into this enormous thing
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but because it was a girl
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it really did right
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well so can I say
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so that's what I meant by like
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I do think there's context
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and so I think we can if
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you know if we're honest
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we can understand that yeah
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because there's yeah
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I'm not saying it's in it's inappropriate necessarily
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but it's definitely different right
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so there's there's a power differential
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differential in in genders
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and so um
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I think we as adults and all of this and
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you know
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I don't want you to fill in this information publicly
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but you know
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depending on the age
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and the history of the relationship and
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and what not
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like it would make sense to respond in different ways
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um but I think there's always in the background
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this knowledge that we have to carry of
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of of men and boys using their power over girls
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so in this case
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there could have been something like that
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or there could not have been something like that
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and I think the default is like
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oh my God he's doing this to her right um
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and and
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and what I would say is that we need
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to put safety first okay
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for sure so we want to make sure everybody's safe
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but then the part that we lose it at
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and I think this is true of schools
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it's true of us as parents
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is that
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we don't take the time to mend the relationship
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right people will go to this place of oh
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but it's you know
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it's it's
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it's trauma inducing to you know
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retraumatizing for you know
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the the child who was pushed up against the fence
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for example to to relive it
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but that's how we build resilience
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is by expressing ourselves
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what did it feel like what
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you know what
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what happened what LED up to it
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what could we do differently
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what do we expect do we need an apology
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um you know
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what sort of mentoring does he need
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to be able to show up differently next time
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like otherwise
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we're just kind of writing him off as a bad kid
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and we're basically throwing her into sort of a victim
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bucket right
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and neither one of those things is helpful right
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it would be so amazing and revolutionary
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if we could help them repair
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and that doesn't mean that
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they're gonna be great friends forever and
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and sometimes
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there might be a rift that destroys a relationship
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that happens it happens in adult relationships as well
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sure but most often
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especially when kids are young
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if we take the time to help kids repair
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then they can go back to being friends yeah
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in this in this particular case
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um
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I ended up reaching out to the father of the girl who
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who is you know
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an acquaintance of mine you know
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our friends are our our
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our kids are friends and so he's
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we have we
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you know we have a texting relationship
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and asking him what her experience was and all of that
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and it and it turned out that she was
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she felt she was really really upset about the incident
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but not because she was held up against the fence
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but because my boy got in trouble
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and she felt like it was her
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fault that he got in trouble right
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I mean and those are the nuances
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and again
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that doesn't mean that what your boy did was okay
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nobody's saying that yeah
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but it's nuance there's more to it
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like what happens to that relationship
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what happens to her okay
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she feels in this case
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she says she she feels bad
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well that's
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that's not useful to their relationship either like
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like they could we
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we could facilitate a conversation about that
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or a repair around that as well
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so anyway yes
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everything is is quite nuanced
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but yeah it
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it's sure does play a role
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but if if two people
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if two kids are boy girl or boy boy yes
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there's some differences but ultimately
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first of all we gotta keep everybody safe
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and then can we please focus in on
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that relationship I always say to my kids
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relationship first relationships first yeah
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you know social
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emotional peace first
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everything else you can learn later and make up later
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but like we have to nurture relationships
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yeah we do
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that's a really fundamental thing
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isn't it we're herd animals
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and if you don't have a way of establishing
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and maintaining relationships
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with other humans
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you're broken in
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in a way that the culture is gonna push you to the edge
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right and real relationships are
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relationships where you can mess up yeah
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and then repair yeah
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and then grow from that and move forward
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yeah so the
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the bringing it back to the steps
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the first step is about healing yourself
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and by fixing yourself so to speak
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um what happens after that
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so then
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I have parents really focus in on
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reconnecting with their sweet boys so
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you know some parents will come and they'll feel really
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they'll say you know
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oh we're really connected
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like we have we have good times together
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other parents come and they're feeling like
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I hate this kid I can't stand him
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other parents are feeling like
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I'm terrified of him I don't wanna be alone with him
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I'm afraid he's gonna hurt me
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I mean
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there are all sorts of feelings that we're coming
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to this work with yeah
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but we have to take the time regardless to spend um
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some one on one time
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to really nurture those relationships
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so that not
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just so that the child
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has some reserves of love to go on
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as he's moving through his world
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but also
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so that we can remember that we actually like the kid
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and we can feel inspired to want to help him do better
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and help things go better
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oftentimes when we
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I teach a practice called special time
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and oftentimes
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there's sort of resistance on the part of the parents
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knowing ah
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don't feel like doing this
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it takes time um
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and then they'll come back to me and say like
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you know I thought this was for my kid
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but actually I'm really liking it
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yeah because there's amazing side effects
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like for example
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so many parents come to me
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and they're complaining
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that their boy never talks to them
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you know he doesn't tell me anything
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especially moms because a lot of moms are much more
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sort of verbal in their processing
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and we wanna talk to our friends about our feelings
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and how things are going
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and we want our boys to do the same with us
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and some do and some don't
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and so they're wanting to get their kid to talk to them
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and he's just not and often times
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when they start this practice of special time
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one of the beautiful side effects is he starts sharing
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yeah so tell me more about special time
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what what is special time and and
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and how do we practice it
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yeah special time is
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just a simple
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one on one time that you spend with your child
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where they get to lead so it's
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it's um
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it turns upside down
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kind of their daily experience as young children
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of adults running their lives right
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cause if you think about it
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if you have a young child
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if you have a young boy it's like
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you know brush your teeth
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get your clothes on go to school
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did you do your homework time for practice
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it's it's just
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we're constantly kind of pulling and tugging
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and pulling and pushing and and
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and dictating what to do and then also what not to do
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you know stop yelling at your sister
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don't push your brother all
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all the things
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so so
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what special hand does is it gives him this timed
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little um
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bubble where he gets to be in charge
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and it's quite empowering
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and it's also enlightening for us
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because we get insights into his world
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I often call it a window into his world
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yeah that's
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where he might share something
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that he wouldn't otherwise share
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because maybe when he usually comes home and he wants
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he has something on his mind
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and we start drilling him like a drill sergeant
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he kind of clams up and shuts down sure
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but if we're quiet
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and we're just following his lead in special time
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he gets to share what he wants
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when he wants on his own terms
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so it's it's nice
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and you also get to see like what he's interested in
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yeah
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when you're not sort of dictating what's coming next
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yeah so special time is a great way to do
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it's not the only way to build connection
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but it's one
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1 tool that I love parents to have in their toolbox
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and it has to be with no other kids around
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so it's really like showing them
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I am putting everything else aside
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my email my work
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my partner if I have one
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your siblings if those exist right
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I am all in just for you and that's an amazing feeling
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and it's just one kid at a time
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right and even the other sibling is gone
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we're just doing this one kid
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one kid this
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this tool is one a one kid tool
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yeah I love this
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and how often would you recommend people do this
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you know it's
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there's there's no one size fits all
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I'll say to parent you know
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if you if you're coming to me for coaching and
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and you've got a kid who is
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you know aggressive
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very aggressive on
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on the daily and multiple times a day
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and there's sibling stuff
551
00:20:02,616 --> 00:20:04,550
or he's hurting you as a parent
552
00:20:04,700 --> 00:20:05,933
um you know
553
00:20:05,933 --> 00:20:07,450
we gotta we gotta do more
554
00:20:07,450 --> 00:20:10,000
if things are copacetic everybody's
555
00:20:10,650 --> 00:20:11,833
you know kind of
556
00:20:13,333 --> 00:20:15,050
moving along in life and everything's
557
00:20:15,050 --> 00:20:16,500
or most things are are going well
558
00:20:16,500 --> 00:20:17,700
and there's little blips here and there
559
00:20:17,700 --> 00:20:19,450
it's like whenever you can fit it
560
00:20:19,450 --> 00:20:23,450
in if you can do special time on the weekend for 10
561
00:20:23,450 --> 00:20:26,333
15 minutes every weekend that would be great yeah
562
00:20:26,333 --> 00:20:27,500
but if it's every day you know
563
00:20:27,500 --> 00:20:30,750
I'm gonna say like we we're gonna do this every day
564
00:20:30,816 --> 00:20:32,466
every day yeah
565
00:20:32,533 --> 00:20:35,450
cause he's screaming for help if he's acting like that
566
00:20:35,450 --> 00:20:37,966
yeah and we need to answer that call yeah
567
00:20:37,966 --> 00:20:40,466
one of the big unlocks for me in
568
00:20:40,900 --> 00:20:42,650
in in a way to that I
569
00:20:42,650 --> 00:20:44,333
that allowed me to keep in
570
00:20:44,333 --> 00:20:45,816
what I call my Sherlock brain
571
00:20:45,816 --> 00:20:48,233
as opposed to my Conan the barbarian brain right
572
00:20:48,450 --> 00:20:51,266
one of the big unlocks for me was to realize that
573
00:20:51,650 --> 00:20:53,216
there's a tension and
574
00:20:53,216 --> 00:20:55,366
and both of my kids and all kids
575
00:20:55,366 --> 00:20:56,650
I think have
576
00:20:56,650 --> 00:20:58,666
live in this tension of
577
00:20:58,900 --> 00:21:02,316
they want connection and they want independence
578
00:21:02,450 --> 00:21:05,333
and sometimes they're feeling not independent enough
579
00:21:05,333 --> 00:21:06,166
and so
580
00:21:06,166 --> 00:21:08,050
they're trying to assert their independence by saying
581
00:21:08,050 --> 00:21:09,550
no all the time for example
582
00:21:09,750 --> 00:21:11,500
and sometimes they
583
00:21:11,500 --> 00:21:12,700
they're not getting enough connection
584
00:21:12,700 --> 00:21:13,566
and so
585
00:21:13,566 --> 00:21:15,700
they're spending more time trying to get connection
586
00:21:15,700 --> 00:21:18,016
and often times the way that
587
00:21:18,016 --> 00:21:21,700
their reflex to get connection is to act in ways
588
00:21:21,700 --> 00:21:23,416
that make it harder to connect
589
00:21:23,416 --> 00:21:24,333
to scream and yell
590
00:21:24,333 --> 00:21:26,200
or throw tantrums and those sorts of things
591
00:21:26,300 --> 00:21:29,416
and when I was able to take a step back
592
00:21:29,416 --> 00:21:31,016
and look at the 50,000 foot view
593
00:21:31,016 --> 00:21:32,216
and realize oh okay
594
00:21:32,216 --> 00:21:34,333
they're often seeking one of those two things
595
00:21:34,333 --> 00:21:39,633
then now all I need are tools to to enhance the
596
00:21:39,766 --> 00:21:41,866
connection or the independence
597
00:21:41,900 --> 00:21:43,900
in a way that's consistent with our values
598
00:21:43,900 --> 00:21:46,116
so I'm not going to respond
599
00:21:46,216 --> 00:21:48,533
in a favorable way to throwing the tantrum
600
00:21:48,533 --> 00:21:50,833
but I am still going to go
601
00:21:50,900 --> 00:21:53,716
try and establish additional connection
602
00:21:54,250 --> 00:21:54,650
right well
603
00:21:54,650 --> 00:21:56,766
one one of the things that's really cool
604
00:21:56,766 --> 00:22:00,366
another side effect of of special time
605
00:22:00,366 --> 00:22:01,300
which is really cool
606
00:22:01,300 --> 00:22:05,700
is that our kids begin to ask for it
607
00:22:05,700 --> 00:22:08,966
and that's always how I know with clients that they're
608
00:22:08,966 --> 00:22:10,450
they're doing what they need to be doing
609
00:22:10,450 --> 00:22:12,900
and things are shifting because you're right
610
00:22:12,900 --> 00:22:13,100
like
611
00:22:13,100 --> 00:22:16,700
kids will ask for attention and call for attention and
612
00:22:16,700 --> 00:22:18,566
because they need it yeah
613
00:22:18,566 --> 00:22:20,300
I'll say um but often
614
00:22:20,300 --> 00:22:23,050
in ways that are really hard for us to respond to
615
00:22:23,050 --> 00:22:25,200
calmly or positively as parents
616
00:22:25,366 --> 00:22:27,450
but when you start the practice of special time
617
00:22:27,450 --> 00:22:30,100
and they start to realize on a subconscious level wow
618
00:22:30,100 --> 00:22:33,316
when we're doing this like I feel better
619
00:22:33,566 --> 00:22:34,366
uh huh
620
00:22:34,933 --> 00:22:37,216
yeah and they're not like cognitively going over wow
621
00:22:37,216 --> 00:22:39,416
I feel more connected to my dad or you know
622
00:22:39,416 --> 00:22:40,166
anything like that
623
00:22:40,166 --> 00:22:43,233
but like it's a somatic experience that they're having
624
00:22:43,300 --> 00:22:43,733
yeah they and
625
00:22:43,733 --> 00:22:45,300
and you call it something
626
00:22:45,300 --> 00:22:46,500
and it doesn't have to be special time
627
00:22:46,500 --> 00:22:47,566
but you call it something
628
00:22:47,566 --> 00:22:50,300
they then have a vocabulary word that they can use
629
00:22:50,300 --> 00:22:52,566
and they will start asking for it
630
00:22:52,566 --> 00:22:55,166
like I'll just say when one of my kids was really young
631
00:22:55,166 --> 00:22:57,100
he used to have such a hard time when I
632
00:22:57,100 --> 00:22:58,650
would go out for the evening
633
00:22:58,650 --> 00:23:01,416
like if it wasn't friends work whatever yeah um
634
00:23:01,416 --> 00:23:04,250
and he would do that thing where he'd cling to my leg
635
00:23:04,250 --> 00:23:06,050
right the thing you can't get him off
636
00:23:06,050 --> 00:23:08,766
and crying and screaming and hitting
637
00:23:08,766 --> 00:23:09,966
and all the things and
638
00:23:09,966 --> 00:23:10,700
and it was like
639
00:23:10,700 --> 00:23:13,050
by the time I peeled him off and got myself
640
00:23:13,050 --> 00:23:14,866
you know out the door
641
00:23:15,333 --> 00:23:17,016
I felt horrible I mean
642
00:23:17,016 --> 00:23:18,300
how much fun was I gonna have
643
00:23:18,300 --> 00:23:19,650
how great was that evening gonna go
644
00:23:19,650 --> 00:23:21,233
I was just thinking about him
645
00:23:21,450 --> 00:23:21,650
and then
646
00:23:21,650 --> 00:23:24,333
I had this idea that I could start doing special time
647
00:23:24,333 --> 00:23:28,066
before I left and give him that sort of extra
648
00:23:28,616 --> 00:23:30,000
um sort of uh
649
00:23:30,133 --> 00:23:33,166
you know inject a shot of connection yeah
650
00:23:33,166 --> 00:23:35,216
of connection before I left
651
00:23:35,216 --> 00:23:37,050
and things started to go better
652
00:23:37,050 --> 00:23:39,050
and then I don't know
653
00:23:39,050 --> 00:23:41,050
wasn't maybe a couple weeks later and I said hey
654
00:23:41,050 --> 00:23:43,533
you know I'm going out tonight and he said well
655
00:23:43,533 --> 00:23:45,950
can we do special time before you leave
656
00:23:45,950 --> 00:23:46,650
wow right
657
00:23:46,650 --> 00:23:49,700
and so he then had the vocabulary to ask for
658
00:23:49,700 --> 00:23:52,816
the thing that he knew helped him with that transition
659
00:23:52,816 --> 00:23:53,616
yeah
660
00:23:54,100 --> 00:23:56,900
that is such a powerful skill or a powerful tool
661
00:23:56,900 --> 00:23:59,016
I love that okay
662
00:23:59,016 --> 00:24:00,600
so we've cared for ourselves
663
00:24:00,900 --> 00:24:03,400
we've connected deeply now
664
00:24:04,450 --> 00:24:07,300
so then if we're going through like aggression steps
665
00:24:07,300 --> 00:24:08,166
and and mind you
666
00:24:08,166 --> 00:24:10,133
I just wanna say everybody's different
667
00:24:10,133 --> 00:24:10,416
absolutely
668
00:24:10,416 --> 00:24:13,500
but if I were gonna go sort of a step by step
669
00:24:13,500 --> 00:24:15,500
the next thing that I would probably have you do
670
00:24:15,500 --> 00:24:19,233
is pay attention to when the aggression happens because
671
00:24:20,450 --> 00:24:23,816
99% of the parents who come to me will say things like
672
00:24:23,816 --> 00:24:28,066
it happens out of the blue or it's all the time
673
00:24:28,416 --> 00:24:31,566
and I've been doing this for a long time
674
00:24:31,566 --> 00:24:32,666
couple decades
675
00:24:33,250 --> 00:24:34,900
I've never found that to be the case
676
00:24:34,900 --> 00:24:36,016
not ever yeah
677
00:24:36,016 --> 00:24:37,566
it's just not out of the blue
678
00:24:37,566 --> 00:24:39,750
there are always signs
679
00:24:39,900 --> 00:24:41,916
and when we can identify those patterns
680
00:24:41,933 --> 00:24:43,616
we empower ourselves
681
00:24:43,616 --> 00:24:45,300
to be able to take leadership roles
682
00:24:45,300 --> 00:24:47,800
and make plans for how we're gonna respond differently
683
00:24:49,100 --> 00:24:50,466
yeah I
684
00:24:50,933 --> 00:24:52,116
I love that
685
00:24:52,816 --> 00:24:53,416
yeah and then
686
00:24:53,416 --> 00:24:53,650
so OK
687
00:24:53,650 --> 00:24:56,366
so now I'm identifying the patterns and I realized that
688
00:24:56,366 --> 00:24:57,516
you know this happens
689
00:24:58,216 --> 00:24:58,416
I I
690
00:24:58,416 --> 00:25:01,150
I I experienced this very thing
691
00:25:01,333 --> 00:25:04,566
um if my boy's been spending too much time on his iPad
692
00:25:04,566 --> 00:25:07,200
watching YouTube videos um
693
00:25:07,416 --> 00:25:09,666
he'll start to get aggressive
694
00:25:09,966 --> 00:25:12,350
yeah and so now what do I do
695
00:25:12,850 --> 00:25:13,416
yeah I mean
696
00:25:13,416 --> 00:25:14,216
I think that
697
00:25:14,216 --> 00:25:17,433
that's a big can of worms you just tossed out there
698
00:25:17,500 --> 00:25:17,733
yeah um
699
00:25:17,733 --> 00:25:20,116
I just wrote an email to my uh
700
00:25:20,416 --> 00:25:21,650
you know a newsletter to my
701
00:25:21,650 --> 00:25:22,533
to my uh
702
00:25:22,533 --> 00:25:24,900
followers this this last week about this
703
00:25:24,900 --> 00:25:26,833
I cannot tell you how many
704
00:25:27,016 --> 00:25:30,366
clients are coming to me in the last few months
705
00:25:30,366 --> 00:25:32,800
with their kids playing Roblox
706
00:25:33,366 --> 00:25:35,216
and are so addicted
707
00:25:35,216 --> 00:25:37,333
that when the parents are asking them to get off
708
00:25:37,333 --> 00:25:39,950
they're getting punched in the stomach yeah
709
00:25:40,533 --> 00:25:42,766
they're getting like physically hurt things
710
00:25:42,766 --> 00:25:44,033
are getting broken
711
00:25:44,300 --> 00:25:47,016
like that's what this addiction is doing
712
00:25:47,016 --> 00:25:50,700
so I mean depending on where you're at with that
713
00:25:50,700 --> 00:25:51,850
like where parents are at
714
00:25:51,850 --> 00:25:52,016
I mean
715
00:25:52,016 --> 00:25:54,333
there's a lot of different things that we're gonna do
716
00:25:54,333 --> 00:25:54,966
yeah um
717
00:25:54,966 --> 00:26:01,633
but the big picture whether it be for tech or other
718
00:26:01,733 --> 00:26:03,700
you know other triggers for
719
00:26:03,700 --> 00:26:05,716
for the um aggression
720
00:26:05,900 --> 00:26:07,300
we're basically gonna be looking at
721
00:26:07,300 --> 00:26:09,850
how do we set loving limits yeah
722
00:26:09,850 --> 00:26:11,266
for this child
723
00:26:12,050 --> 00:26:13,816
so and by a loving limit I
724
00:26:13,816 --> 00:26:17,766
I just mean the tone that we use is gonna be loving
725
00:26:17,766 --> 00:26:19,933
we're gonna give it to them as my mentor taught me
726
00:26:19,933 --> 00:26:21,516
like we're giving them a gift
727
00:26:21,766 --> 00:26:23,733
it's not a punishment a limit isn't a
728
00:26:23,733 --> 00:26:24,900
a punishment
729
00:26:24,900 --> 00:26:28,250
it's not like a consequence like if you do this
730
00:26:28,250 --> 00:26:30,900
then I'm gonna do that kind of a thing not that tone
731
00:26:30,900 --> 00:26:33,550
not that attitude at all it's more of the
732
00:26:33,566 --> 00:26:35,766
the the tone of hey
733
00:26:35,766 --> 00:26:41,116
you know I noticed that when you play Roblox
734
00:26:41,566 --> 00:26:43,933
for an hour after school um
735
00:26:43,933 --> 00:26:46,033
when I ask you to turn it off
736
00:26:46,616 --> 00:26:47,850
we thought and you thought
737
00:26:47,850 --> 00:26:50,916
and I thought that it would just be an easy transition
738
00:26:51,333 --> 00:26:52,650
but what's happening is
739
00:26:52,650 --> 00:26:55,016
I'm actually getting hurt or things are getting broken
740
00:26:55,016 --> 00:26:57,733
so I thought this was gonna work and that was okay
741
00:26:57,733 --> 00:26:58,833
but it's not
742
00:26:59,250 --> 00:27:02,550
and so I'm gonna start holding limits around this
743
00:27:02,800 --> 00:27:04,216
and you can tell them ahead of time
744
00:27:04,216 --> 00:27:07,250
but then you're actually gonna learn how to bring a
745
00:27:07,250 --> 00:27:08,850
limit like not just yell at
746
00:27:08,850 --> 00:27:11,966
but actually make the thing happen
747
00:27:11,966 --> 00:27:14,933
so a lot of limit setting with aggression a lot
748
00:27:14,933 --> 00:27:16,350
a lot and you
749
00:27:17,366 --> 00:27:18,933
to what extent do you should
750
00:27:18,933 --> 00:27:22,716
we give them input into what those limits ought to be
751
00:27:23,450 --> 00:27:24,533
um you know
752
00:27:24,533 --> 00:27:26,816
that depends on their maturity level
753
00:27:26,816 --> 00:27:30,200
it also depends on your values and your relationship
754
00:27:30,216 --> 00:27:31,416
yeah I would also say
755
00:27:31,416 --> 00:27:34,316
a litmus test that I like to use with parents is
756
00:27:34,366 --> 00:27:37,816
are you confused about your limits
757
00:27:37,816 --> 00:27:40,433
or are you questioning this limit
758
00:27:40,500 --> 00:27:44,100
because you're afraid of how he's going to react to it
759
00:27:44,100 --> 00:27:45,550
or how he's gonna respond
760
00:27:45,566 --> 00:27:46,766
because if that's the case
761
00:27:46,766 --> 00:27:48,650
we need to revisit that yeah
762
00:27:48,650 --> 00:27:51,700
if you're just thinking to yourself well
763
00:27:51,700 --> 00:27:52,500
you know
764
00:27:52,566 --> 00:27:56,850
he likes to have a say in in in what happens and I'm
765
00:27:56,850 --> 00:27:59,333
I'm okay with sort of co
766
00:27:59,333 --> 00:28:02,300
creating this next plan with him
767
00:28:02,300 --> 00:28:04,716
and seeing how it goes as long as it
768
00:28:04,766 --> 00:28:06,733
you know X doesn't happen or why doesn't happen
769
00:28:06,733 --> 00:28:08,300
or it's within certain boundaries
770
00:28:08,300 --> 00:28:10,616
then you could absolutely start there
771
00:28:10,616 --> 00:28:12,616
like I just worked with a couple um
772
00:28:12,616 --> 00:28:15,916
and and we had this exact conversation and they decided
773
00:28:15,966 --> 00:28:18,766
um because of who their boy is
774
00:28:18,766 --> 00:28:20,133
and what they know about him
775
00:28:20,133 --> 00:28:24,533
he tends to be sort of a PDA kind of a profile and he
776
00:28:24,533 --> 00:28:26,900
he pushes back and
777
00:28:26,900 --> 00:28:29,350
and he does better when he gets to say
778
00:28:29,450 --> 00:28:31,450
and so there was a red line right
779
00:28:31,450 --> 00:28:32,700
they can't have the aggression
780
00:28:32,700 --> 00:28:35,000
after the test goes off but
781
00:28:35,566 --> 00:28:37,850
there are a few ways that we could go about doing that
782
00:28:37,850 --> 00:28:40,500
we could do we could go cold Turkey and do like
783
00:28:40,500 --> 00:28:42,266
a tech fast for two weeks
784
00:28:42,300 --> 00:28:45,550
or we could go back to um
785
00:28:45,850 --> 00:28:47,500
kind of a a time limit
786
00:28:47,500 --> 00:28:49,650
strategy that we had been doing a few months ago when
787
00:28:49,650 --> 00:28:50,933
and the aggression wasn't
788
00:28:50,933 --> 00:28:52,466
you know wasn't present then
789
00:28:52,566 --> 00:28:54,100
so they decided that
790
00:28:54,100 --> 00:28:57,450
even though they knew which one he would likely choose
791
00:28:57,450 --> 00:29:00,216
they wanted to present him the option of hey
792
00:29:00,216 --> 00:29:02,800
this isn't working yeah um
793
00:29:02,816 --> 00:29:04,733
so we're gonna try something different
794
00:29:04,733 --> 00:29:05,850
would you like this or this
795
00:29:05,850 --> 00:29:08,166
what do you think what would you like to try as the
796
00:29:08,166 --> 00:29:09,833
as the next experiment
797
00:29:10,216 --> 00:29:12,416
and so that would be an example of
798
00:29:12,416 --> 00:29:15,016
of parents who decided but
799
00:29:15,016 --> 00:29:16,450
a different set of parents could have
800
00:29:16,450 --> 00:29:17,733
decided something completely different
801
00:29:17,733 --> 00:29:18,916
and that would have been fine
802
00:29:18,966 --> 00:29:20,933
you get you're the expert on your family right
803
00:29:20,933 --> 00:29:22,033
you get to decide
804
00:29:22,616 --> 00:29:23,600
yeah I think
805
00:29:23,700 --> 00:29:24,750
you know my
806
00:29:25,333 --> 00:29:27,333
my instinct on that you know
807
00:29:27,333 --> 00:29:29,166
based on how I was raised right
808
00:29:29,166 --> 00:29:32,166
which is one of the one of my fundamental things
809
00:29:32,166 --> 00:29:34,500
is that the way that I was raised is maladaptive
810
00:29:34,500 --> 00:29:37,366
for our modern society and in a lot of ways
811
00:29:37,366 --> 00:29:39,950
and the way that I was raised is my
812
00:29:40,016 --> 00:29:41,850
and my my gut reaction is okay
813
00:29:41,850 --> 00:29:43,033
I'm gonna bring the hammer
814
00:29:43,100 --> 00:29:44,366
if you're gonna have interact
815
00:29:44,366 --> 00:29:47,300
if you're gonna have that kind of aggression
816
00:29:47,300 --> 00:29:48,300
after you play Roblox well
817
00:29:48,300 --> 00:29:50,216
then no freaking Roblox right
818
00:29:50,216 --> 00:29:50,900
and then it it
819
00:29:50,900 --> 00:29:55,216
it turns into this absolute nightmare because the
820
00:29:55,216 --> 00:29:59,566
the aggression finds another outlet and it isn't it's
821
00:29:59,566 --> 00:30:02,950
it ends up getting enhanced by that solution
822
00:30:03,016 --> 00:30:05,366
rather than suppressed by it right
823
00:30:05,366 --> 00:30:07,450
and so what I would do in working with parents is say
824
00:30:07,450 --> 00:30:09,133
like you know what actually Sean
825
00:30:09,133 --> 00:30:12,650
I think you have a reasonable ask
826
00:30:12,650 --> 00:30:15,050
or a reasonable experiment to try
827
00:30:15,050 --> 00:30:17,333
which is to go cold Turkey and do a tech fast
828
00:30:17,333 --> 00:30:18,766
like I think that's reasonable
829
00:30:18,766 --> 00:30:18,933
like
830
00:30:18,933 --> 00:30:21,416
let's talk about if that aligns with your values of
831
00:30:21,416 --> 00:30:22,016
you know how
832
00:30:22,016 --> 00:30:23,516
and then we can play out like
833
00:30:23,933 --> 00:30:26,916
how we think your kids gonna react
834
00:30:26,933 --> 00:30:29,800
we can set you up for success in those situations
835
00:30:30,050 --> 00:30:33,000
and we can prepare you so that you can show up
836
00:30:33,366 --> 00:30:36,033
still with that limit but in a loving way
837
00:30:37,016 --> 00:30:38,166
like I get
838
00:30:38,166 --> 00:30:40,533
I see this is hard we're gonna get through this yeah
839
00:30:40,533 --> 00:30:43,000
I know you can do it and I'm here to help
840
00:30:43,650 --> 00:30:45,733
because that's also empowering to them
841
00:30:45,733 --> 00:30:49,933
to know that they can actually do alright without it
842
00:30:49,933 --> 00:30:51,316
they don't want to be aggressive
843
00:30:51,366 --> 00:30:52,616
right like they
844
00:30:52,616 --> 00:30:54,566
they love that reassurance of
845
00:30:54,566 --> 00:30:56,516
I know you can do this
846
00:30:56,966 --> 00:30:58,100
and we're gonna get through this
847
00:30:58,100 --> 00:30:59,416
I'm gonna help you yeah
848
00:30:59,416 --> 00:30:59,816
they don't
849
00:30:59,816 --> 00:31:01,800
they actually don't wanna feel that way either
850
00:31:01,966 --> 00:31:04,366
no they feel like they do
851
00:31:04,366 --> 00:31:05,633
but they don't
852
00:31:06,450 --> 00:31:08,550
they feel horrible yeah
853
00:31:08,850 --> 00:31:11,266
I I find another one of my
854
00:31:11,500 --> 00:31:12,750
uh reflexes
855
00:31:12,766 --> 00:31:16,816
that doesn't really work all that well is to like
856
00:31:16,816 --> 00:31:18,350
try and stop and give him a lecture
857
00:31:19,216 --> 00:31:20,466
oh I love that one
858
00:31:20,616 --> 00:31:21,050
yeah and
859
00:31:21,050 --> 00:31:22,100
and it's almost like
860
00:31:22,100 --> 00:31:24,733
I feel like I can reason him out of the tantrum or
861
00:31:24,733 --> 00:31:27,366
or reason him out of the the like OK
862
00:31:27,366 --> 00:31:29,300
I've taken the the iPad away
863
00:31:29,300 --> 00:31:31,350
and now I'm gonna sit him down and make him
864
00:31:31,416 --> 00:31:34,450
listen to me drone on for 10 minutes
865
00:31:34,450 --> 00:31:36,166
about the importance of balance in life
866
00:31:36,166 --> 00:31:37,516
and all this BS
867
00:31:37,566 --> 00:31:39,416
and I mean you've
868
00:31:39,416 --> 00:31:43,716
you've done a lot of you you speak very negatively uh
869
00:31:43,733 --> 00:31:45,266
to that and it was
870
00:31:45,450 --> 00:31:48,400
it was eye opening to me tell me more about that
871
00:31:48,566 --> 00:31:49,100
yeah yeah
872
00:31:49,100 --> 00:31:49,416
I I'm
873
00:31:49,416 --> 00:31:54,116
I'm a big like zip your mouth shut coach
874
00:31:54,333 --> 00:31:58,550
yeah I'm not a let's name the feelings coach
875
00:31:58,766 --> 00:32:03,100
because what I've seen over 20 years of doing this
876
00:32:03,100 --> 00:32:06,250
is that 99.9% of the time
877
00:32:06,250 --> 00:32:07,566
when we try to like
878
00:32:07,566 --> 00:32:11,500
name the feeling or if we are moving in with
879
00:32:11,500 --> 00:32:15,050
like you said this lecture about life and balance
880
00:32:15,050 --> 00:32:16,750
and all the things that are
881
00:32:16,850 --> 00:32:19,666
you know important to us and rightly so
882
00:32:20,333 --> 00:32:23,333
it doesn't land yeah right
883
00:32:23,333 --> 00:32:24,700
it doesn't land in that moment
884
00:32:24,700 --> 00:32:27,300
but it often also doesn't land outside the moment
885
00:32:27,300 --> 00:32:27,766
right and
886
00:32:27,766 --> 00:32:29,850
and I'm just very pragmatic
887
00:32:29,850 --> 00:32:30,900
if you're coming to me
888
00:32:30,900 --> 00:32:33,050
like there's aggression going on
889
00:32:33,050 --> 00:32:34,333
or your boy is struggling
890
00:32:34,333 --> 00:32:36,050
like I want things to go better
891
00:32:36,050 --> 00:32:37,050
and I know that they
892
00:32:37,050 --> 00:32:40,950
can and that's just not gonna help it
893
00:32:40,966 --> 00:32:43,250
I just say to parents straight up like okay
894
00:32:43,250 --> 00:32:44,600
I would just say to you like
895
00:32:44,616 --> 00:32:46,500
how's that going for you Sean
896
00:32:46,500 --> 00:32:48,633
is that working yeah
897
00:32:49,700 --> 00:32:50,600
is that working
898
00:32:51,966 --> 00:32:53,866
yeah and it doesn't work
899
00:32:53,900 --> 00:32:55,133
and it doesn't work I mean
900
00:32:55,133 --> 00:32:57,533
one of the one of the things that I realized and
901
00:32:57,533 --> 00:32:59,766
and it goes back to that metaphor of the Sherlock
902
00:32:59,766 --> 00:33:02,033
Holmes brain versus the cone on the barbarian brain
903
00:33:02,133 --> 00:33:04,116
the the kids in cone on the barbarian bro
904
00:33:04,566 --> 00:33:10,550
and if you try and use Sherlock tools to
905
00:33:10,566 --> 00:33:13,350
to get to him in in Conan mode
906
00:33:13,416 --> 00:33:14,300
it's not gonna happen
907
00:33:14,300 --> 00:33:16,266
it's exactly the same thing if I'm
908
00:33:16,316 --> 00:33:19,000
you know having a yelling screaming fight with my wife
909
00:33:19,300 --> 00:33:20,733
it's not gonna it's not gonna happen
910
00:33:20,733 --> 00:33:21,966
it doesn't work with adults either
911
00:33:21,966 --> 00:33:23,650
it sure as heck isn't gonna work with a
912
00:33:23,650 --> 00:33:26,016
with a with a 5 year old kid yeah
913
00:33:26,016 --> 00:33:27,133
no I agree
914
00:33:27,133 --> 00:33:27,566
I I
915
00:33:27,566 --> 00:33:28,566
I I really agree
916
00:33:28,566 --> 00:33:29,616
and I think there's just like
917
00:33:29,616 --> 00:33:31,766
a fundamental misunderstanding also
918
00:33:31,766 --> 00:33:36,133
just about why they're acting out in this way
919
00:33:36,133 --> 00:33:39,833
and there's I talk about the the can versus the won't
920
00:33:39,933 --> 00:33:42,216
and I think when we're responding in that way
921
00:33:42,216 --> 00:33:43,900
with the lectures and whatnot
922
00:33:43,900 --> 00:33:46,733
we're in the mindset of my kid
923
00:33:46,733 --> 00:33:49,650
you know won't do what he knows is right
924
00:33:49,650 --> 00:33:52,116
or won't do what he should do
925
00:33:52,166 --> 00:33:52,650
um and
926
00:33:52,650 --> 00:33:55,766
and that's a really disempowering place to be like
927
00:33:55,766 --> 00:33:56,816
I don't even care if it's true
928
00:33:56,816 --> 00:33:58,966
or not it just is disempowering for us
929
00:33:58,966 --> 00:34:01,666
I would much rather have you in that mindset of
930
00:34:01,766 --> 00:34:03,300
he's doing the best he can
931
00:34:03,300 --> 00:34:04,333
always like yeah
932
00:34:04,333 --> 00:34:06,766
he just can't do better right now
933
00:34:06,766 --> 00:34:09,216
which isn't to say we're gonna excuse the behavior
934
00:34:09,216 --> 00:34:10,416
but what it does is
935
00:34:10,416 --> 00:34:13,216
it makes us refocus back on ourselves
936
00:34:13,216 --> 00:34:15,766
yeah and think about how can we modify what we're doing
937
00:34:15,766 --> 00:34:18,100
whether that be with limits or connection or
938
00:34:18,100 --> 00:34:18,850
you know play
939
00:34:18,850 --> 00:34:20,333
which we haven't stepped into
940
00:34:20,333 --> 00:34:22,566
but which is another thing that I really talk about
941
00:34:22,566 --> 00:34:23,650
in terms of um
942
00:34:23,650 --> 00:34:25,850
aggression like how do we use play strategically
943
00:34:25,850 --> 00:34:28,566
like how can we use these things
944
00:34:28,566 --> 00:34:31,900
to help make the situation better
945
00:34:31,900 --> 00:34:35,116
because he doesn't want to be acting this way
946
00:34:35,133 --> 00:34:37,666
he just can't do differently in this moment
947
00:34:38,133 --> 00:34:41,616
yeah and we react as I love that framing
948
00:34:41,616 --> 00:34:43,300
oh he won't behave in this way
949
00:34:43,300 --> 00:34:44,500
it's almost like saying oh
950
00:34:44,500 --> 00:34:47,733
he won't lift this 200 pound box right
951
00:34:47,733 --> 00:34:49,533
like you wouldn't say that
952
00:34:49,533 --> 00:34:51,100
but you do say it about behaviors
953
00:34:51,100 --> 00:34:52,550
well he doesn't have
954
00:34:52,566 --> 00:34:54,250
it's the same exact thing
955
00:34:54,250 --> 00:34:55,850
in the 200 pound box situation
956
00:34:55,850 --> 00:34:58,166
he doesn't have the strength
957
00:34:58,166 --> 00:34:59,916
or the skill or the muscles
958
00:35:00,450 --> 00:35:03,050
and it's exactly the same thing
959
00:35:03,050 --> 00:35:04,500
with the intellectual skills
960
00:35:04,500 --> 00:35:06,966
the intellectual muscles the intellectual strength
961
00:35:06,966 --> 00:35:10,366
he doesn't have to be able to adjust his behavior
962
00:35:10,366 --> 00:35:11,850
it's the exact same thing
963
00:35:11,850 --> 00:35:13,466
and yet we treat it differently
964
00:35:14,016 --> 00:35:14,966
I agree I
965
00:35:14,966 --> 00:35:17,133
I often use a broken arm example because I
966
00:35:17,133 --> 00:35:19,566
think parents really get it as I'll say to them
967
00:35:19,566 --> 00:35:23,366
look if he broke his arm and he had um
968
00:35:23,366 --> 00:35:24,100
you know a
969
00:35:24,100 --> 00:35:27,233
something that he had to write for school for homework
970
00:35:27,466 --> 00:35:27,933
and his
971
00:35:27,933 --> 00:35:29,966
he was right handed and his right arm was in a cast
972
00:35:29,966 --> 00:35:31,766
and he couldn't hold a pencil right
973
00:35:31,766 --> 00:35:33,966
you wouldn't be yelling and screaming him
974
00:35:33,966 --> 00:35:35,016
screaming at him about
975
00:35:35,016 --> 00:35:37,166
you know like get that pencil in your hand
976
00:35:37,166 --> 00:35:39,133
you need to write this homework out
977
00:35:39,133 --> 00:35:41,500
you know you wouldn't you would get creative
978
00:35:41,500 --> 00:35:43,366
you'd you'd be like alright
979
00:35:43,366 --> 00:35:46,416
well do you want to dictate and all write it or
980
00:35:46,416 --> 00:35:46,816
you know
981
00:35:46,816 --> 00:35:50,250
maybe there's some AI tool that you could use to do it
982
00:35:50,250 --> 00:35:52,333
right you'd help them get creative
983
00:35:52,333 --> 00:35:53,250
yeah and
984
00:35:53,250 --> 00:35:54,733
and we gotta do the same thing
985
00:35:54,733 --> 00:35:56,966
when it's just an emotional hurt
986
00:35:56,966 --> 00:35:58,916
rather than a physical hurt
987
00:36:00,050 --> 00:36:01,850
so let me ask you a provocative question of
988
00:36:01,850 --> 00:36:03,216
something that I've been thinking a lot about
989
00:36:03,216 --> 00:36:05,700
because what this brings to mind is that
990
00:36:05,700 --> 00:36:07,700
when you sit down and lecture them or or
991
00:36:07,700 --> 00:36:10,550
you know treat them as if they're not doing their best
992
00:36:10,933 --> 00:36:12,900
uh or they're doing it intentionally
993
00:36:12,900 --> 00:36:15,150
essentially what you're doing is shaming them
994
00:36:15,333 --> 00:36:18,450
you're you're kind of trying to make them feel shame
995
00:36:18,450 --> 00:36:20,066
for not doing the right thing
996
00:36:20,450 --> 00:36:23,366
and I have a hypothesis
997
00:36:23,366 --> 00:36:26,066
and I want your feedback on it is
998
00:36:26,100 --> 00:36:29,033
and the hypothesis is that there's never actually
999
00:36:29,216 --> 00:36:32,400
a valid use for shame as a parent
1000
00:36:32,733 --> 00:36:34,350
what is your reaction to that
1001
00:36:35,216 --> 00:36:37,650
I love that you're asking me that question right now
1002
00:36:37,650 --> 00:36:40,000
because I've been thinking about it a lot
1003
00:36:40,450 --> 00:36:41,316
um
1004
00:36:41,866 --> 00:36:43,216
I've been thinking about it a lot
1005
00:36:43,216 --> 00:36:46,233
because I recently did a training
1006
00:36:46,250 --> 00:36:48,533
I'm now trained in the space program
1007
00:36:48,533 --> 00:36:51,016
it's a program that Eli Lebowitz at Yale
1008
00:36:51,016 --> 00:36:55,216
put together to help kids with anxiety and OCD okay
1009
00:36:55,216 --> 00:36:59,000
and during that training um
1010
00:36:59,533 --> 00:37:02,233
there was a section around aggression
1011
00:37:02,766 --> 00:37:04,366
and a lot of what he does
1012
00:37:04,366 --> 00:37:07,050
and what he teaches is very similar to what I do
1013
00:37:07,050 --> 00:37:10,416
but one thing really struck me
1014
00:37:10,416 --> 00:37:13,350
and I'm trying to play around with it right now
1015
00:37:13,450 --> 00:37:16,866
and he said um
1016
00:37:18,616 --> 00:37:22,250
that if we think about like domestic violence right
1017
00:37:22,250 --> 00:37:24,366
if there's a if there's aggression in the home
1018
00:37:24,366 --> 00:37:27,433
let's just say one parent is being um
1019
00:37:27,450 --> 00:37:29,200
violent towards another
1020
00:37:30,616 --> 00:37:32,350
secrecy is a problem
1021
00:37:33,166 --> 00:37:33,500
right
1022
00:37:33,500 --> 00:37:38,833
we need to go public with it to protect the person
1023
00:37:38,900 --> 00:37:41,800
and to move forward on the healing
1024
00:37:43,450 --> 00:37:45,566
you know on the healing journey
1025
00:37:45,566 --> 00:37:46,716
yeah absolutely
1026
00:37:46,766 --> 00:37:50,266
and he said it's the same thing with this aggression
1027
00:37:51,050 --> 00:37:54,050
and he said something to the effect of
1028
00:37:54,050 --> 00:37:56,333
I'm totally paraphrasing that
1029
00:37:56,333 --> 00:37:58,616
that like a little bit of shame is okay
1030
00:37:58,616 --> 00:38:01,866
is useful for the child
1031
00:38:02,050 --> 00:38:06,350
in terms of being able to stop the aggression
1032
00:38:06,933 --> 00:38:10,833
I'm not saying I agree or I disagree
1033
00:38:10,900 --> 00:38:15,250
I'm simply playing with this right now with clients um
1034
00:38:15,250 --> 00:38:16,733
in a way that I haven't before
1035
00:38:16,733 --> 00:38:19,616
so part we talked earlier about setting up for success
1036
00:38:19,616 --> 00:38:21,250
and setting ourselves up for success
1037
00:38:21,250 --> 00:38:25,250
right when we're first starting to address aggression
1038
00:38:25,250 --> 00:38:26,766
and one of the things there is
1039
00:38:26,766 --> 00:38:30,200
is like I said are there people that we need to tell
1040
00:38:30,250 --> 00:38:32,450
um how do we use the resources in our life
1041
00:38:32,450 --> 00:38:35,233
and he introduced an idea that I hadn't
1042
00:38:35,400 --> 00:38:36,333
I thought about
1043
00:38:36,333 --> 00:38:39,616
which is to use what he calls supporters in a
1044
00:38:39,616 --> 00:38:43,733
in a really specific way where the child knows that
1045
00:38:43,733 --> 00:38:45,666
each time they're aggressive
1046
00:38:47,533 --> 00:38:50,800
we are going to tell that adult
1047
00:38:52,533 --> 00:38:53,800
that supporter
1048
00:38:53,966 --> 00:38:57,416
and then that supporter reaches out to the child
1049
00:38:57,416 --> 00:39:00,450
now what's interesting here is that yes
1050
00:39:00,450 --> 00:39:00,650
right
1051
00:39:00,650 --> 00:39:04,050
there's a little bit of shame there because any of us
1052
00:39:04,050 --> 00:39:05,316
when we do something
1053
00:39:05,900 --> 00:39:09,300
you know mean or hurtful to somebody we love and and
1054
00:39:09,300 --> 00:39:11,900
and we know other people we care about know about it
1055
00:39:11,900 --> 00:39:13,416
we feel shame yeah
1056
00:39:13,416 --> 00:39:15,266
but we also wanna do better
1057
00:39:15,333 --> 00:39:16,133
yeah
1058
00:39:16,500 --> 00:39:18,450
and the way that the
1059
00:39:18,450 --> 00:39:22,833
that supporter comes in and talks to the child
1060
00:39:22,850 --> 00:39:24,766
is very aligned with everything
1061
00:39:24,766 --> 00:39:26,666
that we've been talking about here
1062
00:39:26,733 --> 00:39:28,616
it's supportive it's loving
1063
00:39:28,616 --> 00:39:29,733
it's like you know I
1064
00:39:29,733 --> 00:39:32,016
I love you you're a great kid
1065
00:39:32,016 --> 00:39:35,966
like I know you don't want to hurt your mom um
1066
00:39:35,966 --> 00:39:38,000
you know I heard from her that
1067
00:39:38,300 --> 00:39:41,516
after she asked you to turn off your Roblox yesterday
1068
00:39:41,650 --> 00:39:43,650
that you punched her um
1069
00:39:43,650 --> 00:39:46,050
you know we know that's not okay
1070
00:39:46,050 --> 00:39:51,233
so next time you feel that um how about you
1071
00:39:52,966 --> 00:39:54,900
shoot me a text or how about
1072
00:39:54,900 --> 00:39:57,016
you call me or I don't know
1073
00:39:57,016 --> 00:39:58,616
like I'm just making this up on the spot or
1074
00:39:58,616 --> 00:39:58,766
or or
1075
00:39:58,766 --> 00:40:01,516
or what what do you think we should do next time
1076
00:40:01,816 --> 00:40:03,416
what do you think we should exactly what's our plan
1077
00:40:03,416 --> 00:40:04,716
so there's yeah something
1078
00:40:06,533 --> 00:40:08,366
I love that you just asked me about shame
1079
00:40:08,366 --> 00:40:10,733
because two weeks ago I would have said
1080
00:40:10,733 --> 00:40:12,133
there's no place for shame
1081
00:40:12,133 --> 00:40:13,566
no shame never
1082
00:40:13,566 --> 00:40:15,566
we don't want to shame a child yeah
1083
00:40:15,566 --> 00:40:18,050
and I'm always open to learning because like I said
1084
00:40:18,050 --> 00:40:20,333
I'm very pragmatic I want the aggression to stop
1085
00:40:20,333 --> 00:40:22,600
I mean I have great success with families
1086
00:40:22,650 --> 00:40:25,433
but if we can do it faster um
1087
00:40:25,450 --> 00:40:25,850
and and
1088
00:40:25,850 --> 00:40:29,533
and more efficiently and stop the aggression sooner
1089
00:40:29,533 --> 00:40:31,766
in a way that's still supportive of the child
1090
00:40:31,766 --> 00:40:34,250
you bet I'm in on that so I'm playing around with this
1091
00:40:34,250 --> 00:40:35,650
so I don't know I
1092
00:40:35,650 --> 00:40:37,700
I and I've been thinking a lot about it too
1093
00:40:37,700 --> 00:40:41,333
and what but what one of the things so I've got
1094
00:40:41,333 --> 00:40:42,616
I've got a couple of thoughts on it
1095
00:40:42,616 --> 00:40:44,666
that I'd love to share and get your feedback on
1096
00:40:44,966 --> 00:40:49,016
one of them is that I feel like shame is a tool
1097
00:40:49,016 --> 00:40:52,150
that our society and our culture uses
1098
00:40:52,416 --> 00:40:54,200
to communicate this favor
1099
00:40:54,300 --> 00:40:56,466
and it is really powerful
1100
00:40:56,533 --> 00:40:57,466
our
1101
00:40:58,450 --> 00:40:59,300
our feeling
1102
00:40:59,300 --> 00:41:03,366
our need to be part of the herd is so strong
1103
00:41:03,366 --> 00:41:06,850
that when we start to feel that shame
1104
00:41:06,850 --> 00:41:08,066
that societal shame
1105
00:41:08,333 --> 00:41:12,700
it becomes such a powerful force we almost want we
1106
00:41:12,700 --> 00:41:13,100
can't
1107
00:41:13,100 --> 00:41:16,400
we feel like we can't live without getting rid of it
1108
00:41:16,766 --> 00:41:20,533
and that's one thing another thing is
1109
00:41:20,533 --> 00:41:22,616
so it's really really powerful
1110
00:41:22,616 --> 00:41:25,416
but as with many powerful things
1111
00:41:25,416 --> 00:41:28,266
it loses its effectiveness if it's overused
1112
00:41:28,366 --> 00:41:30,233
and so if you
1113
00:41:30,933 --> 00:41:33,200
continuously shame somebody
1114
00:41:33,333 --> 00:41:35,650
eventually they're gonna become immune to shame
1115
00:41:35,650 --> 00:41:38,416
which is actually a much worse problem
1116
00:41:38,416 --> 00:41:41,616
than whatever it is that you think you're solving
1117
00:41:41,616 --> 00:41:42,800
by shaming people
1118
00:41:42,800 --> 00:41:45,733
so that's another observation that I think is true yeah
1119
00:41:45,733 --> 00:41:47,116
what do you think about those two things
1120
00:41:47,133 --> 00:41:48,100
well I think I
1121
00:41:48,100 --> 00:41:52,766
I'll just say that I think shame as a tool is horrible
1122
00:41:52,766 --> 00:41:55,200
yeah shame is not a parenting tool
1123
00:41:55,566 --> 00:41:56,800
let's just there is OK
1124
00:41:56,816 --> 00:41:57,816
that that that's
1125
00:41:57,816 --> 00:42:00,316
that's probably a principle that that we can
1126
00:42:00,533 --> 00:42:02,016
that is probably well established
1127
00:42:02,016 --> 00:42:02,733
I agree
1128
00:42:02,850 --> 00:42:03,333
yeah I
1129
00:42:03,333 --> 00:42:03,500
I I
1130
00:42:03,500 --> 00:42:07,950
I don't think our goal is ever to use shame
1131
00:42:08,166 --> 00:42:10,216
to transform behavior yeah
1132
00:42:10,216 --> 00:42:13,416
um I'm just getting curious with this new thing
1133
00:42:13,416 --> 00:42:18,866
if there's a way to bring something that
1134
00:42:19,100 --> 00:42:21,633
you know Brene Brown talks about shame
1135
00:42:22,016 --> 00:42:25,566
some kind of to paraphrase sloppily um
1136
00:42:25,566 --> 00:42:27,466
you know grows in in darkness
1137
00:42:27,533 --> 00:42:29,450
yes and so
1138
00:42:29,450 --> 00:42:32,833
we don't want to keep that aggression locked up
1139
00:42:33,050 --> 00:42:34,500
in a dark room right
1140
00:42:34,500 --> 00:42:39,950
because that child is feeling ashamed and ashamed
1141
00:42:39,966 --> 00:42:41,700
because of what he has done
1142
00:42:41,700 --> 00:42:44,100
and is doing continually with the aggression
1143
00:42:44,100 --> 00:42:46,300
hurting somebody that he loves yeah
1144
00:42:46,300 --> 00:42:48,466
so that shame is growing anyway
1145
00:42:48,616 --> 00:42:50,166
so I'm going like well
1146
00:42:50,166 --> 00:42:52,216
can we how do we compare
1147
00:42:52,216 --> 00:42:53,200
that shame
1148
00:42:54,216 --> 00:42:57,933
with the tinge of shame that he might feel
1149
00:42:57,933 --> 00:42:59,666
if I tell grandma
1150
00:43:00,016 --> 00:43:02,500
but grandma comes back lovingly saying
1151
00:43:02,500 --> 00:43:04,216
I know this is hard
1152
00:43:04,216 --> 00:43:08,233
but I'm 100% sure that you can do it yeah
1153
00:43:08,850 --> 00:43:10,416
I heard this happened right
1154
00:43:10,416 --> 00:43:12,166
and I know it's hard to do differently
1155
00:43:12,166 --> 00:43:14,033
but let's make up another plan
1156
00:43:14,250 --> 00:43:17,733
I know it's hard but I know you can do it yeah
1157
00:43:17,733 --> 00:43:20,366
so shame is not a parenting tool
1158
00:43:20,366 --> 00:43:23,933
but maybe there's a way when it happens naturally
1159
00:43:23,933 --> 00:43:28,916
we can we can use it to our advantage
1160
00:43:29,566 --> 00:43:30,733
it's tough it's a
1161
00:43:30,733 --> 00:43:31,800
it's a tough thing
1162
00:43:32,366 --> 00:43:32,850
but I I
1163
00:43:32,850 --> 00:43:35,050
I will say one other thing on that
1164
00:43:35,050 --> 00:43:38,133
which is that there's always attention
1165
00:43:38,133 --> 00:43:42,466
and so anytime anytime I find myself thinking
1166
00:43:42,850 --> 00:43:44,816
a is always the right way to go
1167
00:43:44,816 --> 00:43:46,016
there's almost always a
1168
00:43:46,016 --> 00:43:48,216
B that is diametrically opposed to that
1169
00:43:48,216 --> 00:43:50,633
and the real answer is somewhere between a and B
1170
00:43:51,133 --> 00:43:52,466
and so never I think we get
1171
00:43:52,733 --> 00:43:53,700
go ahead well
1172
00:43:53,700 --> 00:43:55,900
I just say I think we get stuck on sort of like the
1173
00:43:55,900 --> 00:43:59,050
the little details of how we're gonna respond yeah
1174
00:43:59,050 --> 00:44:01,166
and and I think we can just be broader
1175
00:44:01,166 --> 00:44:03,450
like what if we paint it with a broader brush and say
1176
00:44:03,450 --> 00:44:05,833
OK if our child is struggling
1177
00:44:06,250 --> 00:44:08,766
they are they are needing us in some way
1178
00:44:08,766 --> 00:44:11,633
they are needing connection with us right
1179
00:44:11,650 --> 00:44:13,266
um and so
1180
00:44:13,566 --> 00:44:15,700
what's a way that we can offer them connection
1181
00:44:15,700 --> 00:44:17,816
right now and that way might be different than
1182
00:44:17,816 --> 00:44:19,300
it was five minutes ago
1183
00:44:19,300 --> 00:44:21,600
and it might be different than it looks in an hour
1184
00:44:21,933 --> 00:44:23,766
and it might be different than it looks tomorrow
1185
00:44:23,766 --> 00:44:26,100
but yeah we're always asking ourselves
1186
00:44:26,100 --> 00:44:28,633
like I'm always wanting us to be asking ourselves
1187
00:44:28,766 --> 00:44:30,850
how can I help that child
1188
00:44:30,850 --> 00:44:34,033
like in Dan Seagals word how can I help him feel felt
1189
00:44:34,450 --> 00:44:37,216
uh huh feel my love just because your parents well
1190
00:44:37,216 --> 00:44:38,333
I do love him okay
1191
00:44:38,333 --> 00:44:39,616
it's like great
1192
00:44:39,616 --> 00:44:41,050
I love my kids too
1193
00:44:41,050 --> 00:44:43,816
sometimes they feel that and sometimes they don't
1194
00:44:43,816 --> 00:44:46,150
depending on how I'm showing up
1195
00:44:46,450 --> 00:44:48,850
and what state they're in right
1196
00:44:48,850 --> 00:44:52,450
so if we just put connection at the forefront
1197
00:44:52,450 --> 00:44:55,950
I think the details kind of fall into place
1198
00:44:56,900 --> 00:44:59,050
yeah I think that's a beautiful way to
1199
00:44:59,050 --> 00:45:00,966
to cut the knot I
1200
00:45:00,966 --> 00:45:05,250
you mentioned something about a play and I wanted
1201
00:45:05,250 --> 00:45:07,950
I wanted to let you riff on that for a moment
1202
00:45:08,216 --> 00:45:12,833
talk to me about the the need for boys to play
1203
00:45:13,733 --> 00:45:14,416
yeah I mean
1204
00:45:14,416 --> 00:45:17,350
I think human beings in general need to play
1205
00:45:17,733 --> 00:45:21,733
and I think boys often times
1206
00:45:21,733 --> 00:45:26,216
not always but often times play rougher than um
1207
00:45:26,216 --> 00:45:28,433
a lot of people are comfortable with
1208
00:45:28,966 --> 00:45:34,333
and so I think that we have to work on ourselves
1209
00:45:34,333 --> 00:45:36,250
so that we can get a little bit more comfortable
1210
00:45:36,250 --> 00:45:37,700
with that rough and tumble
1211
00:45:37,700 --> 00:45:38,616
kind of play
1212
00:45:38,616 --> 00:45:41,766
if that's something that our boy really thrives on
1213
00:45:41,766 --> 00:45:42,533
and so for example
1214
00:45:42,533 --> 00:45:45,266
like often times I'll have a mom come to me and
1215
00:45:45,450 --> 00:45:46,733
caught two boys and
1216
00:45:46,733 --> 00:45:48,566
and they're going at each other hard
1217
00:45:48,566 --> 00:45:50,100
like they wrestle and they're rolling
1218
00:45:50,100 --> 00:45:52,016
and they're jumping and they're doing all the things
1219
00:45:52,016 --> 00:45:54,533
and often someone will end up getting hurt at the end
1220
00:45:54,533 --> 00:45:56,516
and she's going she's like
1221
00:45:56,566 --> 00:45:58,050
they're killing each other
1222
00:45:58,050 --> 00:46:00,416
they're hurting she's trying to stop them and
1223
00:46:00,416 --> 00:46:01,616
and I would suggest let's
1224
00:46:01,616 --> 00:46:03,666
let's start by asking them like
1225
00:46:04,133 --> 00:46:05,566
do y'all want some help here
1226
00:46:05,566 --> 00:46:07,566
are you doing OK because
1227
00:46:07,566 --> 00:46:09,100
our perception of what's going on
1228
00:46:09,100 --> 00:46:11,950
is often very different from what's going on for them
1229
00:46:12,133 --> 00:46:13,966
and so I just think we wanna be sensitive
1230
00:46:13,966 --> 00:46:14,766
there's no again
1231
00:46:14,766 --> 00:46:17,733
there's no one one thing that's always gonna be true
1232
00:46:17,733 --> 00:46:20,800
every child is different but in general
1233
00:46:20,900 --> 00:46:24,400
rough and tumble play is a great way to connect
1234
00:46:24,466 --> 00:46:26,166
yeah sweating together
1235
00:46:26,166 --> 00:46:27,216
laughing together
1236
00:46:27,216 --> 00:46:29,816
whether you're adults or children or adults at
1237
00:46:29,816 --> 00:46:31,366
with children like it
1238
00:46:31,366 --> 00:46:32,316
it it
1239
00:46:32,650 --> 00:46:36,500
it breeds connection which is what we want right
1240
00:46:36,500 --> 00:46:38,450
we laugh together we feel closer
1241
00:46:38,450 --> 00:46:40,600
we sweat we feel closer
1242
00:46:40,700 --> 00:46:42,016
we we get bonked
1243
00:46:42,016 --> 00:46:44,066
we get to support each other when we're hurt
1244
00:46:44,100 --> 00:46:46,250
it builds connection it builds closeness
1245
00:46:46,250 --> 00:46:50,050
and those are all things that are like the
1246
00:46:50,050 --> 00:46:52,633
the foundation for the sort of
1247
00:46:53,050 --> 00:46:55,400
whole house that we need to build around
1248
00:46:55,550 --> 00:46:56,700
the aggression falling away
1249
00:46:56,700 --> 00:46:57,966
I think that's not a good metaphor
1250
00:46:57,966 --> 00:46:59,666
but essentially like we need
1251
00:46:59,700 --> 00:47:02,333
we need that we need that rough and tumble
1252
00:47:02,333 --> 00:47:03,733
yeah and and
1253
00:47:03,733 --> 00:47:05,616
and often times parents that I work with have to
1254
00:47:05,616 --> 00:47:08,700
work through some discomfort around that
1255
00:47:08,700 --> 00:47:11,933
or they go too hard yeah
1256
00:47:11,933 --> 00:47:13,816
right there are some parents who are just like
1257
00:47:13,816 --> 00:47:15,650
yeah let's get in there and play
1258
00:47:15,650 --> 00:47:17,216
but they're like pummeling the kid
1259
00:47:17,216 --> 00:47:20,000
right with the pillow and he's like wow
1260
00:47:20,133 --> 00:47:21,333
this is too hard yeah
1261
00:47:21,333 --> 00:47:22,616
we need to be aware like
1262
00:47:22,616 --> 00:47:23,450
the idea isn't like
1263
00:47:23,450 --> 00:47:25,216
as the parent that we're gonna like
1264
00:47:25,216 --> 00:47:27,616
you know play the crap out of our kid
1265
00:47:27,616 --> 00:47:28,833
no it's like
1266
00:47:29,100 --> 00:47:32,300
let them win if they're little and if they're bigger
1267
00:47:32,300 --> 00:47:36,050
you still kind of wanna give them a chance
1268
00:47:36,050 --> 00:47:37,250
you gotta play harder right
1269
00:47:37,250 --> 00:47:38,500
cause it's not fun for them
1270
00:47:38,500 --> 00:47:39,650
if you're gonna 10 year old
1271
00:47:39,650 --> 00:47:41,100
and you're playing as if he's three
1272
00:47:41,100 --> 00:47:43,966
it's not fun you have to up the resistance
1273
00:47:43,966 --> 00:47:45,566
but you're gonna play with that to
1274
00:47:45,566 --> 00:47:48,600
to the level where there's laughter happening
1275
00:47:48,616 --> 00:47:50,366
and the last thing I'll just say about this is
1276
00:47:50,366 --> 00:47:52,466
when we have aggression um
1277
00:47:52,966 --> 00:47:54,133
parents often feel like
1278
00:47:54,133 --> 00:47:57,066
if they're playful in their response
1279
00:47:57,416 --> 00:48:00,733
that it's condoning the behavior
1280
00:48:00,733 --> 00:48:02,733
yeah and I just really want to say out loud that
1281
00:48:02,733 --> 00:48:05,300
that is not the case our goal is to connect
1282
00:48:05,300 --> 00:48:07,600
our goal is to help our child
1283
00:48:07,966 --> 00:48:11,250
sense that we see his goodness underneath the behaviors
1284
00:48:11,250 --> 00:48:13,066
and that we're gonna help him through
1285
00:48:13,416 --> 00:48:15,333
and play is a great way to do that
1286
00:48:15,333 --> 00:48:16,933
it's not sending the message okay
1287
00:48:16,933 --> 00:48:19,566
your behavior is okay it's sending the message okay
1288
00:48:19,566 --> 00:48:21,200
I see you're struggling
1289
00:48:21,400 --> 00:48:23,216
I'm not gonna take those behaviors
1290
00:48:23,216 --> 00:48:24,133
seriously
1291
00:48:24,133 --> 00:48:26,416
I'm gonna try to get at you from another angle
1292
00:48:26,416 --> 00:48:30,133
I'm being strategic in my parenting yeah
1293
00:48:30,133 --> 00:48:32,100
you're almost modeling okay look
1294
00:48:32,100 --> 00:48:33,100
this is an appropriate
1295
00:48:33,100 --> 00:48:35,016
way to get the thing that you're after
1296
00:48:35,016 --> 00:48:37,466
over in this inappropriate behavior
1297
00:48:37,700 --> 00:48:39,016
yeah yeah
1298
00:48:39,016 --> 00:48:40,250
I like that a lot
1299
00:48:40,333 --> 00:48:42,100
if there are people out there right now
1300
00:48:42,100 --> 00:48:46,516
who are dealing with aggressive kids
1301
00:48:47,050 --> 00:48:49,100
what should they do if they want help right away
1302
00:48:49,100 --> 00:48:50,066
what should they do
1303
00:48:51,100 --> 00:48:53,733
yeah I have a few ways that I help parents
1304
00:48:53,733 --> 00:48:56,516
so if aggression is the No. 1 issue
1305
00:48:56,733 --> 00:48:59,016
um I have a course called out with aggression
1306
00:48:59,016 --> 00:49:01,100
a step by step practice to stop your voice
1307
00:49:01,100 --> 00:49:03,716
aggressive behavior and lift your parenting confidence
1308
00:49:03,933 --> 00:49:06,166
and I can give you the link to that
1309
00:49:06,166 --> 00:49:09,450
and it's a course that brings you through all the steps
1310
00:49:09,450 --> 00:49:13,566
that I just mentioned but with live support
1311
00:49:13,566 --> 00:49:14,700
so I will be there
1312
00:49:14,700 --> 00:49:17,016
and there's a community of people who will be there
1313
00:49:17,016 --> 00:49:19,133
to answer your questions and to cheer you on
1314
00:49:19,133 --> 00:49:20,916
and all of that so it's not just
1315
00:49:20,950 --> 00:49:21,700
you know here
1316
00:49:21,700 --> 00:49:23,333
go figure it out um
1317
00:49:23,333 --> 00:49:25,300
so if aggression is top of mind
1318
00:49:25,300 --> 00:49:27,766
and that is something that you're ready to commit to
1319
00:49:27,766 --> 00:49:29,766
nipping in the bud and you're ready to start
1320
00:49:29,766 --> 00:49:31,550
that would be the best place to start
1321
00:49:31,650 --> 00:49:32,216
if
1322
00:49:32,216 --> 00:49:35,416
a group experience is something that you've discovered
1323
00:49:35,416 --> 00:49:36,816
doesn't work well for you
1324
00:49:36,816 --> 00:49:38,833
you tend to not show up and you need
1325
00:49:39,000 --> 00:49:40,250
you know the personal trainer
1326
00:49:40,250 --> 00:49:43,116
I do have one on one coaching as well
1327
00:49:43,450 --> 00:49:44,166
that could be
1328
00:49:44,166 --> 00:49:45,333
because you're struggling with aggression
1329
00:49:45,333 --> 00:49:48,533
in your family it could also be for you know anxiety
1330
00:49:48,533 --> 00:49:51,616
it could be for sleep issues or sibling issues
1331
00:49:51,616 --> 00:49:54,616
or whatever I do do one on one coaching
1332
00:49:54,616 --> 00:49:57,500
and then lastly if you feel like
1333
00:49:57,500 --> 00:50:00,450
you know things are a little bit rocky
1334
00:50:00,450 --> 00:50:03,366
not horrible but a little bit rocky or you know
1335
00:50:03,366 --> 00:50:04,216
they're okay
1336
00:50:04,216 --> 00:50:07,050
but you just want to be in a community of parents
1337
00:50:07,050 --> 00:50:10,216
who are committed to parenting their boys peacefully
1338
00:50:10,216 --> 00:50:12,700
and protecting that their boys right to
1339
00:50:12,700 --> 00:50:14,966
to feel and process emotions
1340
00:50:14,966 --> 00:50:17,700
and grow into emotionally intelligent men
1341
00:50:17,700 --> 00:50:19,733
and just want to be in a community of people who are
1342
00:50:19,733 --> 00:50:21,250
actively committed to that
1343
00:50:21,250 --> 00:50:23,233
and thinking about that regularly
1344
00:50:23,300 --> 00:50:24,850
I have um
1345
00:50:24,850 --> 00:50:27,533
a membership community called Parenting Boys Peacefully
1346
00:50:27,533 --> 00:50:30,433
and we would be happy to welcome you into that as well
1347
00:50:30,733 --> 00:50:32,300
I love all of those resources
1348
00:50:32,300 --> 00:50:34,816
and those links are in the show notes
1349
00:50:34,816 --> 00:50:37,450
Tasha thank you so much for taking
1350
00:50:37,450 --> 00:50:38,933
the time to be with us today
1351
00:50:38,933 --> 00:50:41,050
and sharing your wisdom I uh
1352
00:50:41,050 --> 00:50:44,300
it is so much in line with the mission of raising men
1353
00:50:44,300 --> 00:50:47,750
and I can't tell you how much I appreciate it
1354
00:50:47,900 --> 00:50:49,533
I really appreciate the opportunity
1355
00:50:49,533 --> 00:50:50,700
to share my thinking with you
1356
00:50:50,700 --> 00:50:52,650
thank you for trusting me with your audience
1357
00:50:52,650 --> 00:50:53,816
I I don't take it lightly
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so thank you thank you
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Tasha Shore is the founder of Parenting Voice
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Peacefully and the out with
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aggression program and also the author of listen
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5 Simple Tools to meet your Everyday Parenting
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challenges check her out in the show notes and remember
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you are a great parent
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raising men is produced by Phil Hernandez
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this episode was edited by Ralph Tolentino
