My guest today is Sarah MacLaughlin. Sarah is a social worker, parent educator, and author of the award winning best-selling book: What Not to Say: Tools for Talking with Young Children.

She is a writer, trainer, and content expert for Zero to Three, a national nonprofit dedicated to ensuring that all babies and toddlers have a strong start in life. 

Sarah maintains a blog, writes the parenting toolbox column for Portland Main’s Parent and Family, and has been featured many places online including the Huffington Post and this podcast: eps 30 & eps 52 Her latest book is called Raising Humans with Heart and is an invaluable resource for moms, dads, and caregivers everywhere. 

Takeaways from the show:

• Sarah’s new book
• Getting curious about behavior
• Parenting manual we all have
• Trusting maturity will come around
• Mistakes are the primary learning tool for humans
• Stay current with your own emotional process
• Fiercely committed and lovingly detached 
• Being supportive without being suffocating
• Separating our regrets from our kid’s lives
• You have control over the narrative
• Willingness vs. willfulness 
• Conflict is a relationship builder

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