Melissa Chan-Green
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1,676 appearances
13 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 30 Aug
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what you would have wanted to do or thought you would do as a parent and go, actually, what's realistic?
What's going to be best for me and what's going to be best for my child?
And I think when we talk about compassion, not just compassion for ourselves, but compassion for other families, right?
Because I feel sometimes myself that sometimes I have made decisions not because, like in public, not because that's maybe what I would normally do in a parenting style, but because of the expectations I feel other people might have on me as a parent to...
keep them quiet or to you know manage behavior but if it was a little compassion for other parents and and families um that would make our jobs easier too
Yeah, because children change and times change and your circumstances change.
Yeah, things are never constant.
So you're always making those new decisions, right?
In terms of management techniques or things that perhaps...
we use to help manage big emotions, emotional regulation.
What are some things that we tend to do versus some things that perhaps might be more valuable techniques?
And it's with such good intentions, right?
Yeah.
Well, it's good to know that even you have challenges with that.
And I do want to signal here that very soon I'm going to ask you about your upcoming book because that is very exciting and relates to what we're just talking about.
But before I ask that, I just have a small example of when we talk about kind of validating feelings because I've been wondering if I'm approaching this right or not.
So putting you on the spot to ask what would you do in this situation?
Yes, do it.
But so my daughter, who is three, and we were at a birthday party and there was a clown who came in and the microphone kind of went, you know, made a really funny noise when he first started it up.
And he said to the kids,
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