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Teaching Kids to Handle Big Emotions (When We're Still Learning Too)
Today’s episode dives deep into one of the biggest challenges in parenting: how to help our kids handle their emotions—while we’re still learning to manage our own.
We kick things off with some core childhood memories of our dads, then shift into the real heart of today’s conversation:
🧠 What do we do when our kids share big feelings or make big mistakes?
👨👧 How do we respond as dads—especially when we never learned those emotional skills ourselves?
💬 Why feelings without skills = misbehavior, and what tools we can teach our kids
📚 The shift from 80s/90s parenting styles to today’s more…
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