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What do you do when your child resists eye contact when trying to engage in conversations about their behavior? In this mini-episode, Parent Coach Laurie Shaffer offers some suggestions for navigating parent child connection during these challenging encounters. She shares an honest moment she experienced with her 3-year-old granddaughter. In this episode, you’ll discover how she practiced connection and presence in the moment, ultimately empowering her granddaughter with helpful tools she could use next time.

Key Takeaways:

• How deciding to be present can be more powerful than immediate correction
• See a real-life example of how connection before correction helps to bring lasting change

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Guest Bio

With over 25 years in pastoral ministry alongside her husband, Laurie Shaffer has facilitated parenting classes and mentored moms through MOPS/MomCo groups. After raising three biological children, they began fostering and adopting. Connected Families became the answer to their prayers as they were now parenting children who had experienced trauma. Laurie is a Connected Families Workshop Speaker, based in Michigan.

Mentioned Today:

• The Table Monthly Community Giving Program
• Discipline That Connects With Your Child’s Heart Online Course
• Connected Families Workshop Speakers
• Hope for the Journey by Mary Beth and Steven Curtis Chapman
• Connected Families Certified Parent Coaching Program

In Case You Missed It:

Parenting with Grace is definitely a journey of discovery. Two moms share their journey of how transforming their own responses has impacted their homes in Parenting with Grace: Overcoming Shame and Anger [Mini-Episode].

See all of our mini-episodes for this MARVEL-ous campaign on our October podcast page.

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