Is your child ‘spirited’?  Even if they aren’t spirited all the time, do they have spirited moments?  You know exactly what to do in those moments, right?

No?

Well then we have a treat for you today.  Dr. Mary Sheedy Kurcinka, author of Raising Your Spirited Child, walks us through the ins and outs of her book on the same topic.  Best yet, we do the interview as a consult with a parent, Kathryn, who has read and loved the book, but struggled with implementing the ideas.

Warning: we spend quite a bit of time brainstorming very specific problems that Kathryn is having with her daughter.  You may not be having exactly the same problem with your child, but the brainstorming method we use is one you can do with a friend – take the approach with you to address your own problems, rather than the specific ideas.

Read more about Dr. Mary’s books and other work on her http://www.parentchildhelp.com/ (website).



Reference

Kurcinka, M.S. (2015). http://amzn.to/2Fa2n0G (Raising your spirited child (3rd Ed.)). New York, NY: William Morrow. (Affiliate link)

 



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Jen:                                      https://www.temi.com/editor/t/qhBeTvtd_HQqEKaKSoYbJuUfLAD9xJ-6m3QQv5oFw3ThXPGBdlQlYiWWo6M7Gts6tL0eUJUpNfv4hlx1XLVGn3PBB2A?loadFrom=DocumentDeeplink&ts=39.42 ([00:39])                   Hello and welcome to the Your Parenting Mojo podcast. I know we’re going to help a lot of parents out today because we are here with Dr. Mary Sheedy Kurcinka, who wrote the book Raising Your Spirited Child, which I know is an absolute classic read for any parent of a spirited child. I read the book because a listener had requested an episode on it and what surprised me about it was that I don’t think my daughter is particularly spirited, but I definitely saw elements of her behavior described in the book and what I took out of that was that probably pretty much any child can have spirited elements of their personality or even just spirited moments. And so both the book and this episode are really for anyone who raises a child and who has ever had a moment where they think, “why won’t he or she just do what I ask.”

Jen:                                      https://www.temi.com/editor/t/qhBeTvtd_HQqEKaKSoYbJuUfLAD9xJ-6m3QQv5oFw3ThXPGBdlQlYiWWo6M7Gts6tL0eUJUpNfv4hlx1XLVGn3PBB2A?loadFrom=DocumentDeeplink&ts=86.67 ([01:26])                   So Dr. Mary has a bachelor’s in early childhood education, a Master’s in family social science, and a doctorate in education. She has written four books on various aspects of raising children, which have been translated into 23 languages. Her son and daughter are now fully fledged adults and she lives with her husband in Bozeman, Montana. Welcome Dr. Mary.

Kathryn:                             https://www.temi.com/editor/t/qhBeTvtd_HQqEKaKSoYbJuUfLAD9xJ-6m3QQv5oFw3ThXPGBdlQlYiWWo6M7Gts6tL0eUJUpNfv4hlx1XLVGn3PBB2A?loadFrom=DocumentDeeplink&ts=106.74 ([01:46])                   Thank you.

Jen:                                      https://www.temi.com/editor/t/qhBeTvtd_HQqEKaKSoYbJuUfLAD9xJ-6m3QQv5oFw3ThXPGBdlQlYiWWo6M7Gts6tL0eUJUpNfv4hlx1XLVGn3PBB2A?loadFrom=DocumentDeeplink&ts=108.08 ([01:48])                   And so when I mentioned in my fortnightly newsletter, which you can actually receive by subscribing to the show YourParentingMojo.com, that I was looking for a coat interviewer to help me interview Dr Mary and really dig into the ways to apply the wisdom in the book. I received a number of responses, but one really stuck out. Kathryn is based in London and she has a four year old daughter who we’re going to call Jane in this episode and a son who’s a little over a year old and we’re going to call him George.

Jen:...