️ Episode : Why Do I Keep Yelling at My Child? The Truth Most Parenting Advice Misses

[00:00:08]Hello, welcome. Welcome to a brand new season of the Parenting with Understanding podcast. This is This is the first time that we're live and we are going to cover why do we keep yelling at our kids? Is this you? You've tried many ways to be patient. You try to repeat yourself at the same instruction. You You've been perhaps following parenting content and you're like, "Okay, but I still keep yelling at my kids at some point. At the end of the day, I'm so tired and I don't know how to how to change this." On this podcast episode, you are going to have clarity about the root of reactivity, parental reactivity, and most of the time is not what we think. So, you can start parenting your children as a secure parent with awareness. Hello, welcome to another episode of the Parenting with Understanding podcast. This is your host, Marcela Collier. I'm a neurodivergent mom of twins and I am a certified parenting coach, founder of HIC Parenting Education Agency, and we are on the mission of helping parents like you move away from reactivity and become secure parents for your kids.

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[00:01:53]Number two, we are are to have real time experiences of parenting guidance and support. I'm going to invite parents who, like you, wanted raise secure children, and you are going to experience coaching live. You are going to see new guests coming, expert guests that are going to enlighten us in other topics of secure parenting, and I'm going You're going to see solo episodes like this one as well, where I'm going to directly talk to you, talk to you and developing and develop your skills to be a secure parent. I'm going to adjust my seat real quick. I feel like I'm too down. Okay, I think now I'm adjusted.

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[00:03:50]Okay, let me go back. I don't know if I can see the comments. Anyway, so let's go back. Let's go back talking about our our our our topic. Why do we keep yelling at our kids? Have you ever thought, but I know a lot. I've been through the podcast episodes. I've been through the tantrums workshops. I've been through the I I bought classes and and I follow a lot of content, but still at the end of the day, I end up yelling. I know how to speak to my kids because I've gotten a lot of things, but I still end up in the same reactive cycle. If that is you, say you, say me in the chat. I'm a little I'm a little distracted by my my team chat. Luego das click about chat.

[00:04:39]Okay, okay, I got it. I think I can see it. Now I can see your comments, that's awesome. So if that is you, it does not happen because you are a bad parent. It does not happen because you you have a bad child or you have a difficult child.

[00:04:54]A lot of neurodivergent families feel the same way. A lot of neurodivergent parents feel the same way same way. I wonder if it's because I'm neurodivergent. It's I wonder if it's because I'm autistic. Is it because I I'm ADHD or is it because the parenting advice that I see in social media does not work for my neurodivergent child?

[00:05:15]And you know what? It does have It has nothing to do with who you are as a parent and what your children are. It has a lot to do with the interpretation that you are having at the moment of what your children's behaviors mean and what your own behavior mean. So what do you mean by this, Marcela? What do you mean by this? Let's let's let's unravel this, okay? Let's just imagine a child lies to their parent. Parent The parent asks the child to go and do their homework and then the child starts doing their homework, and then the parent checks back with what the child is doing, let's just say 15 minutes later, and the child real quick changes the window in the laptop, and then pretends that that he's doing the homework. When the parent knew that the child was in fact playing video games, doing other things, not doing the homework, and that that they changed the the window real quick, so the parent would not see it.

[00:06:13]So, let's just say this is the situation. I'm curious, before we unravel this, what would you do if this happened to you? What would you do if if your 7-year-old or 8-year-old did that kind of deception? What would you do if this happened to you? Let me know in the comments. The chat is open, so I'm able to to see it. Let me know in the comments. What would you do? Well, let's just say that there is a parent who sees this behavior, and they're like, "Wow, my child is being so deceptive. Honesty is a very important value to me, and I was punished really harshly growing up when I was dishonest. I learned in the hard way to always tell the truth." So, this parent that comes from this interpretation is going to respond very differently to a parent who gets curious about the behavior. A secure parent who sees the behavior not as a reflection of who the child is, or a projection of their own childhood wounds, but who sees the child's behavior underneath it.

[00:07:18]Meaning, what is this what why did this happen on the first place? What is my child communicating to me through this behavior? A secure parent is a parent who gets curious before getting furious, or instead of getting furious. Curious and not furious. A secure parent is a parent who looks beneath the behavior, and this secure parent found out that her child who is ADHD was deeply struggling with online learning. That was back in 2020 when we just when we just started our private community, the Secure Parent Collective. And she came to us. She came to our private community to to be a secure parent and to break away from her own reactivity. What activated the most for her was the lying behavior, the deception. But then as she became a secure parent, she started realizing that her child's her ADHD ADHD ADHD's child's behaviors. That was a mouthful for me. Communicated a need, a learning need. This child was feeling overwhelmed with online learning. Demand avoidance was kicking in and this child was avoiding it, avoiding online learning. They usually started they with good intention, but then as the lesson went, they got disengaged because they are ADHD. They struggle regulating focus, they struggle sitting still on a chair and staring to a computer. They struggle with controlling their impulses. So, their brains drifted off to other things such as opening a new window and playing. It wasn't that the child was trying to be deceptive. It wasn't that the child was trying to not do her responsibility, not fulfill her work. Work. Her child was struggling to make online learning work for her ADHD brain. So, do you see the difference? A parent, the same behavior, the same child, and perhaps the same parent. She was reactive when her interpretation was, "My child is trying to be deceptive. My child is trying to not listen to me. My child is is not not doing what her responsibility is."

[00:09:37]versus my child is struggling with learning considering her ADHD brain. So, interpretation always change our intervention. Interpretation always change our intervention. And by the way, if you are if you are getting a hot moments, if you're getting like, "Okay, this is making sense." I want to share it with another friend. Share this live with another friend. Just tag a friend right now and or send this live to another friend so they can join us right now.

[00:10:09]>> [music] >> If today's conversation is speaking to your heart, I want you to know you don't have to become [music] the secure parent your child needs alone. Inside the Secure Parent Collective, you'll receive direct guidance from me, personalized support from our HIC parenting [music] coaches, and the encouragement of secure parents who truly understand your journey. Try [music] free for 30 days at secureparentscollective.com or scan the QR code. We'd love to walk this journey with you.

[00:10:42]>> [music] >> So, secure parents are not perfect.

[00:10:53]Secure parents just practice parenting from a different lens. They practice parenting from a different lens. Two our members of our private community, the Secure Parent Collective, I I reinforce all the time that there are three skills that helps us be secure. The skill of emotional regulation, the skill of mind-sight, and the skill of positive discipline. And the interpretation that we have about our children's behaviors is the skill of mind-sight because mind-sight is being really good and understanding the needs and feelings and missing skills driving behavior. So, information alone information alone is good, but it does not change us.

[00:11:36]Information alone is good, but it does not change us. Why Why is it like this?

[00:11:40]Because our interpretation of our children's behaviors are always permeated or clouded through the lenses of our own beliefs, our own wounds, our own experiences. And this is something that you don't see in social media, in social media content. Social media doesn't speak to you about you. That's why we have a space for you to come and get direct guidance from us, which is the Secure Parent Collective private community. "Good with Muhammad. It's so true getting the info and understanding is key. It works, too. Thank you so much for for sharing that." So, I want you to practice this. I want you to practice getting curious, getting curious. Where would you get judgmental about your children's behaviors? We don't want to judge our kids, but many times we fall into judgments without even knowing it.

[00:12:35]They're doing it on purpose. This is This is a rule that we all we already went over. They should know better.

[00:12:42]They're the older child. They're old enough for this. All those things are judgments that we have of our kids. So, I want you to practice mindsight.

[00:12:53]Mindsight is looking beneath the behavior and getting curious about what the behavior really means. Why do we yell? We yell because of the interpretation that we have of our children's behaviors. Marcela, okay, so but I don't know. It seems to me like I yell because I'm overstimulated or because I lack support. And I want to be I want to be tender and empathetic about that because it does feel true. It does feel true. It does feel true. Being tired, not sleeping well enough, all daily business does add stress to our nervous system. Yet, the reactivity comes from a different avenue. It does not come from stress. It comes, again, from what we are telling ourselves when we witness our children in their behaviors. That's what sparks reactivity. Being busy and not sleeping well creates stress. The reactivity is created by our clouded lenses. And that's the work that we do in our private community, the Secure Parent Collective. We help parents move away from reactivity and become secure parents by developing mind size skills, which is what we talked on this episode, emotional regulation skills to remain secure and positive discipline skills to know how to guide their kids without reactivity. If you want to explore our private community, I encourage you to to join us. Free for 30 days. Just go to www.secureparentcollective.com.

[00:14:35]Yes, secureparentcollective.com.

[00:14:38]And you can join us for free for 30 days. Or after this live, we are going to leave a link or a QR code somewhere at the point of this podcast episode. Hi Mari, good morning from Louisiana. What was the third point? Emotional regulation regulation, mind size, and positive discipline. Mind size is what we unravel during this episode. It is looking beneath the behavior and responding to our children from the understanding of their needs. Emotional regulation is knowing what to do with our bodies to regulate our emotions. So, when we feel the stress of life, we don't dump it on our kids. And positive discipline is knowing how to guide our children without reactivity. Those are the three skills that every secure parent masters and the skills that we help parents develop in HIC parenting and in our private community, the secure parent collective. So, let's bring it all together. Behavior is communication.

[00:15:40]Not just your children's behaviors, but your behaviors. What does your reactivity mean? When I am reactive, what kind of interpretation am I having about my children's behaviors? Am I coming from a place of judgement or am I coming from a place of curiosity? The same likewise with us. When we are reactive, what kind of interpretation are we having about our own parenting?

[00:16:07]Are we coming from a place of judgement?

[00:16:10]I'm a bad mom, I'm a bad dad, I'm failing as a parent, I don't have what it takes, judgement, or are we coming from a place of curiosity? This stress that I'm feeling, this overwhelm, what is it telling me about my needs? What is it telling me about the way I'm interpreting my children's behaviors?

[00:16:28]What is it telling me about my feelings?

[00:16:30]From a place of empathy and love. Yes, guidance without reactivity. So, let's go back to the story. Once this secure parent, she is one of our members of our private community, once she was able to understand that beneath that behavior of changing the screen, right, go do your homework and then when she went check, the child changed right away the screen because she was really playing video games. When she was able to understand that this was happening because the child with ADHD was having a really hard time connecting to the online lesson, then her approach completely changed.

[00:17:10]And she was able with positive discipline to help her child without reactivity. How did positive discipline look like here? It look like guiding this behavior based on the child's needs. The child needed movement. So, she went from, "Okay, you need to sit still and do your homework to, "Okay, maybe we can put a wobble chair and then you can do your homework in a wobble chair or maybe you can bounce on a fitness ball while while you pay attention to your teacher to the to the online lesson. Maybe we can break up the homework in little time stretches at the time instead of being you instead of just sitting for 20 minutes straight, let's break it up for 5 minutes." And these accommodations and these strategies is positive discipline. It's guiding our children without reactivity and it's one of the three skills that every secure parent needs to have.

[00:18:04]Morgana from Ecuador does amazing. Yes, hi Maddie. Wanting control is something that can cause reactivity. Letting that go makes such a difference. Changing our mindset is life-changing. Yes, for sure.

[00:18:17]You are correct. You are correct.

[00:18:19]Welcome to session two, Morgana. If this podcast episode gave you a different perspective of why you're yelling, I encourage you to share with one parent friend. You don't have to You don't have to send it to the whole neighborhood.

[00:18:33]Just share with one friend. Maybe is your sister, maybe is your cousin, maybe is your your next door friend. They need to know as well that it is possible to raise our children as a secure parents without reactivity. It is completely possible. Okay? Next week, we are going to talk about our first pattern of reactivity. There are actually three types of reactive patterns and if you're like, "Okay, I don't know if Marcel is really understanding, but I really try to be calm, but when I cannot hold it any longer, I end up exploding." If that is you, then stay. Come back in 2 weeks.

[00:19:15]We are going to do our podcast episodes for now every 2 weeks, Monday at 9:30 a.m. PDT, Pacific Time. I encourage you to set a reminder, to put it on your Google calendar so we can meet each other Mondays at 9:30. And on our next episode, we are going to talk about the parenting pattern that most parents fall into without even knowing it, and how to start getting out of this to be a more a calmer, more secure parent. Remember that you are growing as a secure parent, and it only takes a secure parent to raise a secure child. I'll see you next time. Thank you for coming, Morgan.

[00:20:02]Thank you for coming, Maddie.

[00:20:07]>> [music] >> Happy Thursday. Happy Thursday. You graduated from our coaching program.

[00:20:25]Congratulations. I'm so happy.

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[00:20:30]>> How do you feel now after 6 months of coaching?

[00:20:35]>> I I [clears throat] feel I didn't know that I would feel this way. I had hope [music] for what I what I I just wanted to feel better. Um but yeah, I didn't know that I would feel this at peace, at secure, feel more myself.

[00:20:52]>> You feel more of a what?

[00:20:54]>> Myself.

[00:20:55]>> Yourself. Okay, how did you feel before?

[00:20:58]Like you now you feel like you you are you, but before how did you feel?

[00:21:02]Before coaching?

[00:21:03]>> Kind of bound, um is a way that I I felt a lot bound and burdened.

[00:21:09]>> [music] >> And now I feel like more free and um, [music] yeah, at peace.

[00:21:15]>> Mhm.

[00:21:17]Wow. And you you are an autism mom, autistic as well.

[00:21:22]>> Yes.

[00:21:24]>> I want to know something >> [music] >> because I I hear these often from neurodivergent parents who come to inquire about HIC [music] parenting, who don't know what they need.

[00:21:37]And they I hear often with all the needs that I have, sometimes I I I have the thought that maybe I shouldn't [music] been a parent.

[00:21:48]Do you ever feel that way? And now you say that you feel yourself, what what changed if you ever feel that way?

[00:21:56]What changed after your 6 months of of processing coaching?

[00:22:05]>> Yeah, I definitely felt [music] like that. I felt like I wasn't cut out to be a mom. I was like, oh, you know, those people who love it, I guess those are just the people who are like born [music] to be moms or should be people who wanted to be moms since they were kids. I guess that's that's why they love it so much.

[00:22:23]And I I um and I felt like maybe I needed like anxiety medication to be able to enjoy it.

[00:22:32]Um But I think that's also what I mean when I say I feel more more like myself, like um more capable and powerful within myself.

[00:22:45]Um and enjoying motherhood and um I definitely didn't think I had it in me to be this capable and enjoy it this much and secure. And I think that's also what I meant when I said I didn't know that I would that this would be where I would end up and this is how I would feel. Wow. I just wanted to feel a little bit better than I felt before. Um but I feel I feel different and that's um more yeah, more myself.

[00:23:22]With there's so much ease and less effort.

[00:23:26]>> So you you wanted to feel a little bit better and that's why you started in coaching but then you didn't know that the change was going to be this much.

[00:23:36]>> Mhm.

[00:23:38]>> Thank you so much. I'm sure that these your story will help a lot of parents here, a lot of parents here. Especially the ones who are just starting, who don't know if if if coaching would do anything.

[00:23:52]>> Mhm.

[00:23:53]>> I say it from experience. I came to be a parenting coach because I was under parenting coaching first.

[00:23:59]And it changed my life.

[00:24:01]It did.

[00:24:03]>> Yeah.

[00:24:03]>> something a lot different than just reading a book or watching a reel is different because you get help with your own particular self. And Marcela is not in any book or reel or Tik Tok.

[00:24:17]>> Mhm. Yeah.

[00:24:18]>> Yeah.

[00:24:19]>> So yeah, if if anyone's starting, you know, if you could just imagine yourself here, you know, because um if I had known that this is where I would be, it would um it would you know, would have given me so much hope. Um yeah.

[00:24:35]>> So to all the autistic parents and autistic parents and ADHD parents who feel like maybe because I have a diagnosis, I cannot be a secure parent or I cannot have a peaceful dynamic with my autistic kid. Rita is the clear example that is possible.

[00:24:52]>> Mhm.

[00:24:53]I thought this was just what some people parents are kind of meant to experience, you know, with with whatever they have going on with whatever their kids differences their kids have or like, "Okay, this is just the life of those parents then." But, I'm I feel happy. I feel fulfilled and yeah, I see it in my son, too.

[00:25:15]>> Mhm. And let's let's think about something. Your son is still he's still autistic and you're still autistic. You still have autistic needs. You still have sensory needs, social needs, your your son as well.

[00:25:31]The the behaviors and the needs don't change, but what changed?

[00:25:38]>> Um how I saw them, how I related to myself within within these challenges, um the compassion I gave myself.

[00:25:52]And um attending to my own needs. Um learning about my own needs. My partner and I both said that we learned so much about ourselves.

[00:26:04]And um we're taking better care of ourselves and it gives us the room to take better care of our son and to understand him better.

[00:26:12]Mhm. And um I I forgot what I was going to say.

[00:26:25]>> [laughter] >> Well, that all that sounds beautiful.

[00:26:28]Thank you for sharing.

[00:26:29]>> Happy Thursday.

[00:26:32]>> [music]