Keeping cool in order to provide loving discipline

Sondra Santos Drahos, Parent Educator and Blogger, shares advice for parents on how they can keep their cool and respond respectfully to their children when they misbehave
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Keeping cool in order to provide loving discipline

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Responding respectfully to your children rather than reacting is really important. And by that I mean giving yourself a moment to pause, or giving your child a moment to pause and reflect on their behaviour will always be helpful. So if there's a situation that comes up and you feel like you're going to lose your patience or maybe you've already lost it, give yourself a time out. Go in the other room, kind of pause and reflect on how you would handle this situation and then come back, and sometimes that's a stronger discipline than your first reaction might be.

Sondra Santos Drahos, Parent Educator and Blogger, shares advice for parents on how they can keep their cool and respond respectfully to their children when they misbehave

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Sondra Santos Drahos

Educator & Blogger

In 2007, when Sondra Santos Drahos was a single mom, she became a Certified Parent Educator and founded Happy Healthy Hip Parenting.  She is a Parental Advisor at Parental Wisdom and has been heard on NPR’s The Takeaway. She was included in the Nielsen’s list of Top 50 Power Moms in 2009. She is dedicated to Honoring Families, Supporting Parents, and Enriching Relationships. She lives in Solana Beach, California with her husband and two sons.

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Transcription: 
Responding respectfully to your children rather than reacting is really important. And by that I mean giving yourself a moment to pause, or giving your child a moment to pause and reflect on their behaviour will always be helpful. So if there's a situation that comes up and you feel like you're going to lose your patience or maybe you've already lost it, give yourself a time out. Go in the other room, kind of pause and reflect on how you would handle this situation and then come back, and sometimes that's a stronger discipline than your first reaction might be.