The Compassionate Caregiver Podcast

This week we are revisiting a very special school of thought created by Erik Erikson. He believed that people are resolving eight crises throughout their lives. The first four are in early childhood. In this episode, we visit the fifth crisis, which arises in adolescence: Identity vs. Role Confusion. Learn why it is important to personality development and how your behavior can help to influence it.

This week we are revisiting a very special school of thought created by Erik Erikson. He believed that people are resolving eight crises throughout their lives. The first four are in early childhood. In this episode, we visit the fourth crisis: Industry vs. Inferiority. Learn why it is important to your child's (and YOUR) personality development and how your behavior can help to influence it.

This week we are revisiting a very special school of thought created by Erik Erikson. He believed that people are resolving eight crises throughout their lives. The first four are in early childhood. In this episode, we visit the third crisis: Initiative vs. Guilt. Learn why it is important to your child's (and YOUR) personality development and how your behavior can help to influence it.

This week we are revisiting a very special school of thought created by Erik Erikson. He believed that people are resolving eight crises throughout their lives. The first four are in early childhood. In this episode, we visit the second crisis: Autonomy vs. Shame and Self-Doubt. Learn why it is important to your child's (and YOUR) personality development and how your behavior can help to influence it.

This week we are touching on a very special school of thought created by Erik Erikson. He believed that people are resolving eight crises throughout their lives. The first four are in early childhood. Today we visit the first crisis: Trust Vs. Mistrust. Learn why it is important to your child's (and YOUR) personality development and how your behavior can help to influence it.

Tune in this week for this important tenet of positive discipline and how to implement it into your daily interactions with your loved ones. It will help to save your sanity and your relationships!

Trying to distill the concept of trust for your children? Join us this week for a super simple analogy that can help children comprehend how difficult it is to build trust and how easily it can all slip away.

Join us this week as we discuss the power of non-violent communication and how it can transform your relationships with children, adults, or yourself (almost immediately)!

When undesirable behavior presents itself, in children or adults, there is often an unmet need at play. Identifying and meeting the need for the loved one in your life helps to lessen the intensity of emotion and create space for calm and communication. Tune in this week to hear about how to hone these skills yourself, and why you might need them in your most important relationships, at home or at work.

Reflective listening is one of my favorite "teacher tools" to help children feel seen, heard, and understood. It meets emotional needs and also helps to model language and grammar development. Tune in to hear about how to easily start using this skill with the children (and adults) in your life.

We are way more likely to be unkind to ourselves than to our friends. This week we discuss the importance of practicing self-compassion for ourselves as the caregiver and teaching self-compassion to the children in our lives. Learn my favorite phrase on how to help draw the line between helpful and hurtful self-talk. You will feel better immediately.

Everyone needs dignified choices. This episode will briefly break down how to craft dignified choices for the little ones in your life. Offering choices is a game changer in engaging cooperation and empowering children. Listen in to get your ideas flowing today!

Asking for change of behavior is a delicate task. If the child (or, who are we kidding, adult) you may be asking begins to feel defensive or under appreciated, change will be almost impossible. Tune in this week to learn a teacher tool for kindly inspiring behavior change: the compliment sandwich. It will change your life with children and adults alike!

Did you know creating opportunities for children to say "no" to you actually inspires more cooperation instead of less? Tune in this week to learn about why this is important and how you can easily incorporate these little chances to say, "No," to create a kinder, more self assured child.

Did you know allowing children to dress themselves promotes brain development AND motor development? Plus, it is a classic power struggle area. Listen in this week and learn my tips for helping a child dress in weather appropriate outfits without your help (thus avoiding a power struggle entirely).

Tired of the meal time power struggles? Listen to this week's episode to learn how to end those for good, making your meals happier and healthier. This episode also discusses the importance of body autonomy around food and how it can help prevent a child from developing eating disorders later in life. Tune in!

Children need to learn their body belongs to them. Teaching body autonomy to young children as well as adolescents reduces the chance of abuse. This four part series will help you learn how you can give your child a mindset that will help protect them from harm at the hands of others. This is important. Give it a listen.

Instilling kindness in children is one of the most important things you can do as an adult in their lives. Listen to this week's episode to learn some helpful tips on how to do that through your own behavior.

Negative self-talk is a huge culprit of unhappy day-to-day functions. Join us this week to look at ourselves and our lives with more kindness and compassion. You deserve it, and the children in your life will follow in your footsteps. Leave a legacy of kindness. Find more joy today.

Join us this week to learn the difference between giving encouragement versus praise, what shedding praise can do to help children be self-motivated instead of people pleasing, and how encouragement can build growth mindset.

Join us this week and learn how to invite MORE of the behavior you want to see from children and LESS of the behavior you DON'T want to see with this simple switch.

Join us this week to learn how curiosity can help YOU--the caregiver--to reduce conflict between you and the children in your care.

Join us this week to learn this quick tip for pressing pause on a meltdown. This tip comes from the book "How To Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk" by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish.

Join us this episode to learn about how humor can help to deescalate conflict between you and your little (or not so little) ones.

Join us this week to learn a special tool that will actually inspire cooperation between you and the children you love and care for. Definitely a must listen for anyone who would like more cooperation from children.