Get Curious, Not Furious: Discipline Again & Again, and Some More.

All children misbehave—at least sometimes. You know that. You
also know your particular child or children will misbehave; it
might even happen every day. And you know how to use positive
discipline—partly because it was covered in the two previous
episodes of the Practically Perfect Parenting Podcast. Why then,
when your child misbehaves, is it so easy to get mad and so
difficult to be a thoughtful and positive disciplinarian? In this
episode, Dr. Sara Polanchek and Dr. John Sommers-Flanagan discuss
why children misbehave and how to solve obstacles to healthy
discipline by . . . getting curious, not furious. To make things
better still, our special expert guest, Meg Akabas, author of “52
Weeks of Parenting Wisdom,” shares her thoughts on parenting
knowledge, when and how parents should give their children
choices, and when parents should just tell their kids what to do.
This podcast is brought to you by the National Parenting
Education Network, and The Charles Engelhard
Foundation.