Jim Fay talks with Dave Rael about mutual dignity, preparing children for the world, empathy with children and adults, and positive influence
Chapters:
- - Approach to this episode and getting to know Jim Fay
- - Learning about dealing with children from education and parenting
- - Dave's interpretation of Love and Logic and Jim's reaction
- - The state of discourse in the world the relevance of preparing children for real interaction
- - Jim on bringing empathy to interaction with children
- - The primacy of simplicity and the fault in complication of life
- - Quick win on setting boundaries with simple words and phrases to neutralize conflict and manipulation
- - Influence, manipulation, and empowerment
- - Love and Logic applied to adults as well as children
- - The reasons children and other humans need boundaries and why they test them
- - Healthy and unhealthy setting of boundaries and the communication of boundaries and expectations as behavior modeling
- - The unhealthy swinging pendulum of adult focus vs child focus
- - The problems with punishment and the virtue of delaying reaction
- - A specific example of approaches to care and teaching
- - Differences between mothers and fathers and between children and adults
- - The moral case for