How to be a calm parent and not lose your cool every day? Isn’t this the question we are all hoping to answer as busy moms? You want to be patient, present, and connected…not feel like you are losing your mind. Today’s guest, Jennifer Kolari, is a highly sought-after international speaker and the founder of Connected Parenting. A child and family therapist with a busy practice based in San Diego and Toronto, Kolari is also the author of Connected Parenting: How to Raise A Great Kid and You’re Ruining My Life! (But Not Really) Surviving the Teenage Years with Connected Parenting.Jennifer’s powerful parenting model is based on the neurobiology of love, teaching parents how to use compassion and empathy as powerful medicine to transform challenging behaviors and build children’s emotional resilience and emotional shock absorbers. Kolari’s wisdom, quick wit and down-to-earth style help parents navigate modern-day parenting problems, offering real-life examples, as well as practical and effective tools and strategies.In today’s episode, we discuss…Using compassion as medicine and bringing peace to your homeThe trap of expecting our children to think, behave, or feel the way that we wouldWhy the CEO mindset does not work at homeThe temptation to protect our children from all things at all costsThe inability for children to emotionally regulate when you remove all adversityBuilding confidence and resilience in your childrenWhen YOU believe you, they will believe youHandling our children’s freak outs without our own freak outsIf you are working harder than your child in a tantrum “you are just fuel”The concept of “adrenaline play”The pillar technique of connected parenting using deep connection and languageBaby play and close connectionThe C.A.L.M. technique and how it works like magicBig feelings that don’t fit into little bodiesFor the show notes and all the links mentioned in today’s episode, head to secretsofsupermom.com/91.Stay connected!www.secretsofsupermom.comSecrets of Supermom on FacebookSecrets of Supermom on InstagramText us your feedback or questions!Stay connected! Join us in The Supermom Society! Get all the details at thesupermomsociety.com! Get all our show notes, buy the book Secrets of Supermom, and more at our website: www.secretsofsupermom.com Secrets of Supermom on Facebook Secrets of Supermom on Instagram

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