Ross W. Greene

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289 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2024 last heard Jun 2024

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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children · TPP 387: Dr. Ross Greene on Using CPS (Collaborative and Proactive Solutions) with Very Young Kids · 18 Jun 2024 podcast

And you hold them and you try to get them to smile at you, and you are thrilled when they look happy.

Little by little they start going for it.

But I also think we live perhaps more so in the United States than some other places, but also perhaps so more in some other places than the United States.

We live in a society here that tends to be pretty compliance oriented, and of course we apply that to our kids.

I also think there's convenience involved.

I think that it feels more convenient and easier to just have a kid who when you say jump says how high.

But I also think we feel judged if we have a kid who doesn't.

I think those are some of the reasons.

The key is to pay attention to what an infant is telling you, both when they're happy and when they are distressed.

When they're happy, you're probably fine.

When they're distressed, they're telling you something.

And by the way, I need to make the point, then we'll go back to infants.

That's true with three year olds and eight-year-olds and fourteen year olds and sixty-seven year olds.

When they're distressed, they're telling you something, and what they're telling you is that there's some expectation they're having difficulty meeting.

Regrettably, the

Especially as kids get older.

We pay more attention to the way they're communicating that than we do to what they're communicating.

And of course, the kids I've been working with for a very long time are the ones who communicate that they're frustrated in ways that tend to be maladaptive, but they're still communicating something important.

And that is that they're frustrated.

For a very long time we've been primarily paying attention to the frustration response.

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