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May 5, 2024 52 mins

Have you ever felt like waving that white flag of surrender? Like things with your child are so challenging that at times you feel defeated? During the pandemic, Vanessa’s coaching client Sarah Kowalski found herself overwhelmed and even afraid after her son began lashing out emotionally and physically. Eventually, she knew that the best thing that she could do was ask for help, and now she shares the strategies she learned to manage challenging situations and shift the entire dynamic of her relationship with her son. 

You will get a personal look at how Vanessa walks parents through tricky situations and common challenges with their children with tenacity, vision, and commitment. You’ll also learn how you can adapt these strategies and tools to your child and their developmental stage’s needs and goals. Together, we can normalize asking for help and learn the art of setting boundaries with kids, sticking to them, and modeling the behavior we want to see in our children. You aren’t in this alone. 

Here are the topics we covered in setting boundaries with kids.

  • Normalizing asking for help when we’ve run out of tools and strategies

  • Concrete strategies for managing challenging situations and finding that one piece that can shift the dynamic

  • The necessity and challenge of both setting boundaries with kids and holding to them

  • The power of modeling the behavior ourselves that we want to see in our children

Discover more about our signature yearlong program for parents and caregivers, The Family Foundations Immersion, at https://bit.ly/RORImmersion.  

Go to www.thecalmempoweredparent.com to get your free copy of Vanessa’s Calm Parent Strategy Guide, to submit a question, to stay up to date with upcoming events, and to explore how to bring one of Vanessa’s low-cost workshops to your school or group.

Music by Jabari Martin instagram.com/iamstolenartifacts

 

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