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Your Child’s Core Emotional Needs, Part Three: Competence – 058

Today, we're wrapping up the three-part series about your child's core emotional needs. In part one, I talked about your kids' need for connection. Part two was all about giving your kids more [...]

Your Child’s Core Emotional Needs, Part Two: Control – 057

Last week I talked about your child's need for connection and how to support that need through involvement, warmth, empathy, and responsiveness. In this second part of the three-part series on [...]

Your Child’s Core Emotional Needs, Part One: Connection – 056

According to the Self-Determination Theory of Motivation, all humans have three innate psychological needs. Over the next three episodes, I'll explain each of these core needs and why they’re [...]