Sunshine Parenting

  In Episode 97, I'm chatting with Signe Whitson. We talk about her book, Parenting The Challenging Child: The Four-Step Way To Turn Problem Situations Into Learning Opportunities, which is based on her work at the Life Space Crisis Intervention, an organization dedicated to training teachers, counselors, and parents on how to appropriately respond to challenging behaviors from kids. The program helps us to better understand the conflict cycle that we can get into with kids when they are exhibiting bad behaviors and how we can help break that cycle. Previously, in episode 66, I spoke to Signe about her research and article about distinguishing between rude, mean, and bullying behaviors in children. After Signe's visit to my camp this summer to do training with our counselors, we now call each other by our camp names, Sunshine and Ginger. Big Ideas One of the most important tools that kids have for calming down is deep breathing. Another important tool that kids have for calming down is movement. It's importa