Welcome to Day 4 of our 5-Day Challenge! In this episode, we're going to talk about how we can adjust our expectations and increase self-awareness so that we can interact with our kids more effectively.

Day 4 objective - increase self-awareness through metacognition and examining expectations.

Day 4 mantra - Things are just as they should be - I’m right on schedule

Day 4 challenge - Break down anger. Anger and frustration are secondary to violated expectations. Do some cognitive work today to tune in to your own thinking and its effects on how you feel. Think of three examples where you lost it and break it down into a simple PEACE model:
P - Problem (what happened? I yelled at Sophie when she made a mess at lunch)
E - Expectation (I expected Sophie to be neat and clean)
A - Alternative expectation (Sophie is 4 years old - that’s exactly what I would expect a four-year-old to do at lunch as she begins to learn more advanced skills)
C - Change in Feeling - rating 0-10 (I feel calmer - from an 8 to a 4)
E - Experience promise - (now that I know this I will…)

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00:19 Today's objective and mantra
01:18 It's great to remember this
02:21 The challenge
03:40 How you can implement this
04:03 P.E.A.C.E.
08:40 Consider the stages
10:41 Change in feeling
12:24 An experienced promise

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Dr. Paul Jenkins

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