#153 - Owning Your Parenting Flaws

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Chances are your kids know your flaws better than you do. Of course, they can’t (or won’t) put the most helpful words around those flaws, so we thought we’d give you a way into some insights. In fact, this episode gives you a dozen questions to think about, wrestle with, and squirm through as you own your flaws! Take a listen if you dare!!

Talk about this:

I AM MORE LIKELY TO...

  1. OVER schedule my family or AVOID planning and making family commitments

  2. DISENGAGE or BE A "QUESTION gun" to my kids at the end of the day

  3. PUSH kids out of their comfort zones or PROTECT my kids when they are uncomfortable.

  4. BE WALKED ON or BULL DOZE OVER my kids when they have different opinions or push back?

  5. MANIPULATE or BE MANIPULATED BY my family?

  6. STUFF my anger or EXPLODE when mad?

  7. BE TOO CONTROLLING or TOO DISENGAGED in addressing my kid's negative behavior?

  8. HELICOPTER or be UNINTERESTED / DISTANCED in my kid's school?

  9. TALK too much or SAY too little?

I AM MORE WORRIED ABOUT ...

  1. My kids being afraid of me OR not respecting me?

  2. Not knowing what my kids are doing OR being overly-involved in their lives?

  3. Being inflexible OR being unreliable?

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Early Years, Teenage YearsJoy PhenixParenting