Podcast Episode #45 – Raising Boys Q&A: Encouraging connection with others

Raising Boys

We’re back this week with Nathan McTague, the co-founder of the Center for Emotional Education and co-creator of the Feeleez line of social and emotional learning tools. He’s a long-time parent educator and full-time father. Our conversation today is about modeling healthy relationships for our children. We want to prepare them to recognize and develop healthy relationships once they go out into the world. Many of us were brought up without this behavior being modeled. Instead, we were simply told the “proper” way to behave. Rebecca and Nathan explore what it means to use relationship as a powerful teaching tool for our children.

As parents, we all have a similar concern when it comes to raising our kids (both boys and girls). What’s going to happen when they start to go out and have their own relationships? Have I done enough to prepare them to connect with others and have healthy relationships?

Most importantly, we have been teaching them about relationships their entire lives. This is true from the time they were newborn to whatever stage they’re in now. We have been modeling how to treat others, how to resolve conflicts, how to connect and appropriately get our needs met, and how to reconnect after disconnection.

Resources from this Episode

The Center for Emotional Education

Author

Rebecca Thompson Hitt

Rebecca Thompson Hitt, MS, MFT is the founder of The Consciously Parenting Project (2007) and Thriving Humans (Thrivinghumans.org). For over thirty years, she has walked alongside individuals, couples, and families as they find their way back into relationship with their children, with each other, and with themselves. Her approach reaches beneath behavior to the earliest experiences and nervous system patterns that shape how we connect. With gentleness, deep listening, and no pathologizing, she helps people so see themselves and the ones they love with new eyes. She offers online consultations and groups, and works with people all over the world, supporting the transformation needed in the world starting with our closest relationships. With over 30 years of professional experience working with individuals, couples, and families, Rebecca is dedicated to transforming our relationships stories, one relationship and one family at a time. Rebecca is the author of four books and the mother o...

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