Joyful Courage - A Conscious Parenting Podcast

Today’s guest is Laurie Hatch, a “radical grandma” with strong ideas and opinions about how children who can be raised. She has eleven kids, 44 grandkids and has worked in education, now consulting and training. We are going to talk about kids... “If I could teach parents one thing it would be: never expect kids to share. Kids do not share until the ages of 4 and 5 when it becomes important to them to have a playmate who stays with them and collaborates” “Sharing is one of the most inappropriate expectations we have in childhood and a huge trigger. We were taught to be nice and share and that if you don’t share you aren’t nice.” “About the time we start to figure out parenting, we are done” What you’ll hear in this episode: •   Exploring the language we use to describe behaviors our kids engage in •   How separating ourselves from our children’s behavior changes how we describe and perceive it •   Sibling rivalry and how we help create it •   The role of supervision in mitigating sibling conflict •   What i