How To Be Firm Without Yelling
5/11/202632 min
In this solo episode of Robot Unicorn, Jess tackles a common parenting struggle: How to find a middle ground between being passive and resorting to yelling. Tune in to gain practical insights that will empower you to break negative cycles and lead your children with respect and calm authority.
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First 90 secondsSpeaker 00:00
[upbeat music] Welcome to Robot Unicorn. Hosted by my parents, Jess and Scott. I hope you enjoy the episode.
Jess VanderWier· Host0:14
[upbeat music] Hey, friends. So excited to have you back again on the show today. Today, we are actually missing one of our very special people. Scott is not here today. He's not gonna be here for just the next couple episodes, but don't worry, he will be back again. We just have a very busy season, and so I'm taking over for a little bit, but it's gonna be good. We're gonna have some really practical, a bit shorter episodes for you, answering some of the questions that you guys have been sending in, and this one in particular is a question that has been sent in quite a bit, so I'm really excited to talk about it. Let me just start by just reading the DM. So a parent wrote to me saying, "Jess, I struggle with either being passive or yelling. I don't even know what a middle ground, confident voice sounds like. Do you have any ideas? Could you model to me what it sounds like to be confident?" I really liked this question for a few reasons. First, I think it's a really common question that parents have. We wanna be confident. We wanna use, what I like to call, a strong or a firm voice with our kids, but at the same time, that can be really difficult, especially if that type of voice was never modeled to us, or if we tend to kind of veer towards yelling.