This is the most uncomfortable topic in parenting, because it shifts the pressure off our kids and onto us. We tell them to calm down while we’re losing it. We ask for respect in a disrespectful tone. We rush them out the door and then wonder why they aren’t patient. And when it doesn’t work, we’re confused.
Here’s what I had to learn the hard way. One morning I snapped at my daughter, and she turned and snapped at her sister in the exact same words, same tone, same edge. She wasn’t acting out. She was holding up a mirror. The thing I’d spent months trying to correct in her, she’d picked up from me. And that’s the hopeful part, because if she could absorb my worst moments, she could absorb my best ones too. In this episode, I share the five places we say one thing and do another, and the three practices that change your child by changing you.
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