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How parents can lean into an authoritative parenting style and set boundaries without being too lenient or too strict.

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259. BTS: How do I know if I’m giving in too much and becoming permissive?

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169. BTS: Is it okay to bribe my kids to get them to cooperate?

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We’re diving into the research on whether bribing your kids can be harmful and offering you additional tools to increase your kid’s cooperation.

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41. Using your child’s brain, body and nervous system to guide your parenting: A conversation with child psychologist Dr. Mona Delahooke

Child psychologist and the author of the new book, Brain-Body Parenting, Dr. Mona Delahooke and I talk about how parents can look past their child’s behaviors to find the root of what is causing the behavior in the first place, using her color-coded framework to understand the nervous system, and how that can be our secret weapon in parenting to raise resilient, self-confident and healthy children.

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39. Understanding parenting styles and the benefits of an authoritative approach: Q&A with Dr. Emily Upshur

Dr. Emily Upshur and I are diving into Diana Baumrind’s 4 parenting styles – Permissive, Authoritative, Authoritarian and Neglectful – in order to help guide one mom who wonders how she can break the cycle and raise her child differently from the authoritarian way she herself was raised.

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