How to Validate Your Kids Even When You Disagree With Them

In this episode, Chelsea Demaio, LCSW and Andy Dean, LCSW discuss the following topics:

 

How parents can validate their kids even when they don’t agree (3:56). 

 

School Avoidance:  How to validate the feeling of being anxious without approving of the behavior of staying home from school (5:37). 

 

The best time for parents to give their kids feedback and share stories about when they experienced similar challenges (9:59).

 

Physical and Verbal Aggression:  How to validate a child’s feelings while managing aggressive behaviors (16:40).

 

Chelsea discusses how validation has gotten her out of a jam with her husband (25:34).