Ep. 202 | Navigating Big Emotions in Children

Are you kids getting to the age where you know you need to have “the talk,” but you just aren’t sure where to start? Do you worry that you’ll rob your children of their innocence and over-expose them if you talk to them about sex? Does it feel like you’ve already missed the boat ...  Show more

Does your child talk non-stop and rarely come up for air? Is sleeping the only time your child ceases to talk—and sometimes not even then? Do you want your child to know that what they say matters, but sometimes feel overwhelmed by just how much they have to say? Join Ginger Hubb ...  Show more

Mike taps into his knowledge of Latin for a conversation about emotion, which at the root means "moving out." What do we do when emotions move children in the classroom? We can take on the role of "inner voice" and guide childrens' responses to their feelings. Sometimes words get ...  Show more

In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Marc Brackett, the Founding Director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence and author of Permission to Feel. Dr. Brackett discusses the importance of emotional intelligence, and how we can teach our children to understand and manage t ...  Show more

Discover all of the podcasts in our network, search for specific episodes, get the Optimal Living Daily workbook, and learn more at: OLDPodcast.com. Episode 2694: The Gottman Editorial Team breaks down the four parenting styles based on emotional responsiveness, showing how each ...  Show more

Emotions are messages, and we aren’t often open to listening to them- they feel too big, too much, or never ending. in the process of ignoring and suppressing these messages from our body, we may feel tension, pain, discomfort, illness or disease. In this episode we go over hypno ...  Show more