When people behave badly – it’s rarely about you and almost always – all about them. The best thing you can do is be compassionate. If you make it all about you – you are not helping yourself or them and you will end up hurting more than you need to and probably make the stressed out poorly behaving person – behave even worse.
We all have moments where we get upset. That’s ok. That’s normal. What is not ok is taking out your anxiety and fears on other people. So, the challenge is – how to make space for those emotions, while teaching kids how to not “lash out” as a result of those emotions.
A person who has taken one of the free online courses I offer – emailed me the other day to tell me about the impact my course had on their child. They gave me permission to share the story here (details about who and where and what are omitted to protect the identity of the children involved.
Which is better depends on what you are teaching and why you want to learn it. In an age of online information it is very easy to get access to …
