Your Parenting Mojo - Respectful, Research-based Parenting Ideas To Help Kids Thrive

Do you ever have that voice in your head that tells you things like: "You shouldn't have laid in bed for so long; you should have got up earlier to get ready for the day"?Or how about: "You shouldn't let your kids watch TV; good mothers don't let their kids watch TV"?Or: "If I was any good at this parenting thing, my kids wouldn't fight with each other"?If you do, have you noticed that sometimes that voice comes out when you talk to your children, in that exasperated, shaming voice: "Why would you do that?"If you have, you're not alone.My guest for this episode is parent Katie, who is a therapist with a Master's in Counseling.She's specifically trained in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which is a method of changing people's behavior - essentially by teaching them to ignore their body's signals of fear and anxiety.Despite knowing everything there is to know about how to change a person's behavior, Katie still struggled as she transitioned from two to three children, and was suddenly dealing with massive sleep d