Here's one thing I want to begin with.
I think a lot of us worry that our kids' bad behavior anywhere,
and especially heightened at school, is some reflection of our parenting.
And then when our kid struggles behaviorally, emotionally, academically, to some degree,
we're not even responding to their struggle as much as to our need.
to feel like a good parent through them having better behavior.
And then whatever they're struggling with kind of becomes a pawn in our game that we want to prove to everyone we're amazing parents and so we need them to act better on the playground or learn how to read or figure out some pure dynamic in a group situation.
I think today is going to give you insight on all of that and you'll learn a little bit more about how things played out in my tricky parent-teacher conference.
I'm Dr.
Becky, and this is Good Inside.
We'll be back right after this.
My younger son came home and ended up sharing a ton of bad behavior he had at school.
And I'm gonna tell you, it was legitimately bad behavior.
Here's what I wanna do.
I wanna walk through.
everything that happened between us while it's still fresh in my mind
because I think a lot of us have this model of kind of coming down harshly on our kids or we have to punish them in order to get better behavior.
But now that I'm just a few days out, I see how this whole arc made such a big difference.
And I want to talk through every part where I'm going to end up giving you stuff that's going to make you laugh is going to really relate to the day to day in your home and might give you permission to kind of interact with your kid.
And just a way that feels slightly better to both of you and ends up being more effective.