TPP 111a: Katherine Reynolds Lewis Tells us the Good News About Bad Behavior

In week’s podcast episode, we’re talking about bad behavior. Specifically, The Good News About Bad Behavior. That’s the name of a new book by journalist, author, speaker, and parent educator, Katherine Lewis, and in this episode, Katherine and I talk about what our kids’ behavior is telling us and how we as parents, teachers, and other adults in kids’ lives can best respond to it while encouraging our kids to develop into healthy adults.
In researching and writing her book, Katherine connected with one of our favorite parenting thought leaders, Dr. Ross Greene, and reframed her own thinking about bad behavior as being a child’s way of demonstrating lagging skills. Katherine’s book aims to help parents navigate tricky behavioral situations and work with their children toward better solutions. I really enjoyed this conversation and hope it offers you some good food for thought.

Katherine Reynolds Lewis is an award-winning journalist and author of The Good News About Bad Behavior: Why Kids Are Less Disciplined Than Ever – And What to Do About It. Her work has appeared in the Atlantic, Fortune, Money, Mother Jones, The New York Times, Parade, Slate, USA Today’s magazine group, the Washington Post Magazine and Working Mother. She holds a BA in physics from Harvard University and is a certified parent educator with the Parent Encouragement Program (PEP) in Kensington, Md. 
 
Things you’ll learn from this episode

How parents can shift their mindset in the way they think about behavior

Why our kids’ need to experience failure, and why modeling it for them can be so powerful 

How to let go of what others think of our approach to parenting and discipline

Ways parents can compassionate advocate for and educate others about our children

What Katherine hopes her book does in the world in terms of changing the conversation surrounding behavior

What the good news about bad behavior actually is

 
Resources on the good news about bad behavior

Katherine Lewis’ website

The Good News About Bad Behavior: Why Kids Are Less Disciplined Than Ever, and What to Do About It by Katherine R. Lewis

Katherine Lewis on Facebook 

Katherine Lewis on Twitter

Katherine Lewis on Instagram

The Explosive Child: A New Approach for Understanding and Parenting Easily Frustrated, Chronically Inflexible Children by Dr. Ross Greene

Lives in the Balance (Dr. Greene’s website)

Support the show
Connect with Tilt Parenting

Visit Tilt Parenting

Take the free 7-Day Challenge

Read a chapter of Differently Wired

Follow Tilt on Twitter & Instagram

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In week’s podcast episode, we’re talking about bad behavior. Specifically, The Good News About Bad Behavior. That’s the name of a new book by journalist, author, speaker, and parent educator, Katherine Lewis, and in this episode, Katherine and I talk about what our kids’ behavior is telling us and how we as parents, teachers, and other adults in kids’ lives can best respond to it while encouraging our kids to develop into healthy adults.

In researching and writing her book, Katherine connected with one of our favorite parenting thought leaders, Dr. Ross Greene, and reframed her own thinking about bad behavior as being a child’s way of demonstrating lagging skills. Katherine’s book aims to help parents navigate tricky behavioral situations and work with their children toward better solutions. I really enjoyed this conversation and hope it offers you some good food for thought.

Katherine Reynolds Lewis is an award-winning journalist and author of The Good News About Bad Behavior: Why Kids Are Less Disciplined Than Ever – And What to Do About It. Her work has appeared in the Atlantic, Fortune, Money, Mother Jones, The New York Times, Parade, Slate, USA Today’s magazine group, the Washington Post Magazine and Working Mother. She holds a BA in physics from Harvard University and is a certified parent educator with the Parent Encouragement Program (PEP) in Kensington, Md. 

 

Things you’ll learn from this episode

How parents can shift their mindset in the way they think about behavior
Why our kids’ need to experience failure, and why modeling it for them can be so powerful 
How to let go of what others think of our approach to parenting and discipline
Ways parents can compassionate advocate for and educate others about our children
What Katherine hopes her book does in the world in terms of changing the conversation surrounding behavior
What the good news about bad behavior actually is

 

Resources on the good news about bad behavior

Katherine Lewis’ website

The Good News About Bad Behavior: Why Kids Are Less Disciplined Than Ever, and What to Do About It by Katherine R. Lewis
Katherine Lewis on Facebook 
Katherine Lewis on Twitter
Katherine Lewis on Instagram

The Explosive Child: A New Approach for Understanding and Parenting Easily Frustrated, Chronically Inflexible Children by Dr. Ross Greene

Lives in the Balance (Dr. Greene’s website)

Support the show

Connect with Tilt Parenting

Visit Tilt Parenting
Take the free 7-Day Challenge

Read a chapter of Differently Wired

Follow Tilt on Twitter & Instagram

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices