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Jun 2024
24m 33s

How To Validate Your Kids' Feelings

NATALIE BACON
About this episode

Do you struggle with how to valiate feelings and hold boundaries for your kids? If so, you're not alone! It can be challenging to know the difference between saying "no" and still validating how your kids feel. 

 

In this podcast, you'll learn how to validate feelings, scripts for validating feelings, what not to say, and how you can hold boundaries at the same time.

 

This means you'll see exactly how you can be a warmhearted, firm mother. One who is neither demanding nor permissive, but instead one who is compassionate, strong, and connected. 

 

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