Worth Repeating :: Stacy Bellward

Gems of Motherhood - A podcast by Sharon Kon

Now we all want well behaved children, but kids often misbehave. Having difficult conversations with children is hard. Yet, In today’s podcast, Stacy Bellward talks about The Power of Questions. She shares concerning the importance of asking questions. The opposite of asking is telling. And telling does not work. We often get into these patterns in our homes where we just tell… and telling turns into nagging and sometimes even into yelling. And sometimes it’s almost like a tug of war. “If we were to boil down our job raising our kids, the two important things that we want them to exercise is wisdom and responsibility.”Stacy talks about breaking patterns of defensiveness and how the power of curious questions creates productive conversations. She also talks about asking effective questions as well as type of questions to avoid in an effort to get the best results in correcting our children’s behavior. What we chat aboutThe power of questionsEffective questionsBad questionsSetting our kids up for successTeaching our children to cooperateBuilding our children’s character