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#97: Your Questions: The Survival Years, School Decisions, and Not Losing our Cool

March 6, 2019 By Joshua Straub Leave a Comment

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In this episode, we take your questions and talk about them. This week’s questions include the following topics:

  • How to thrive in the survival years with young kids
  • Should we send our kids to kindergarten early or hold them back
  • How to manage our own anger and fear so as not to yell at our kids
  • How to be emotionally safe in the early years
  • The stage we set up for our kids in our dining room

The Questions: 

  1. Hi! Absolutely love your podcast and have been a fan since episode one. Could you please post a picture of your living room concert stage? I love the idea behind this simple yet impactful and intentional choice you’ve made in making family memories come to life! God bless! –Suzanna
  2. I absolutely love your podcast and Safe House book! It’s completely changed how I view parenting, as I did not grow up in an emotionally safe home. I struggle with control and anger that leads to yelling at my child. How can I safely teach my toddler that she needs to obey her parents without yelling or threatening? – Ashley
  3. Can you please talk about leading your family well in the survival years? We have a 3.5 year old boy and one year old boy. Thank you. – Mandy
  4. I would love some insight in delaying kindergarten. My son (my first born) will turn 5 on June 9th. I never really thought much about delaying kindergarten, and always just knew we would wait and make the assessment towards the end of his PK year to see if he was ready. My husband feels pretty strongly now about delaying it no matter what to help him in the future. There is just something about it that doesn’t feel right to me, but my husband is pretty confident in delaying and I don’t want to push and regret it later down the line in middle school when it seems the age difference really starts to become an issue. I would greatly appreciate and respect your thoughts. – Michelle

Show Notes: 

Start feeling better today by ordering What Am I Feeling? Click here to order.

You can also click here to learn about Safe House: How Emotional Safety is the Key to Raising Kids Who Live, Love, and Lead Well.

 

 

 

 

Images of homemade stage outside and inside the house. 

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