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Jun 2024
45m 16s

Let Your Kids Get Hurt

Gwenna Laithland and Tori Phantom
About this episode
Bring out the feelings wheel! In this episode, Gwenna and Tori emphasize the importance of allowing children to experience and express their emotions. They share practical tools like the ‘feelings wheel’ and ‘catastrophe scale’ to help children regulate their emotions, and discuss the role of boundaries, including the necessity of making children mad to enfo ... Show More
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