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Podcast: The Stress Nanny with Lindsay Miller
Episode: Ep 201: Why Letting Go Of Control Gives You More Influence As A Parent
Description: What if the fastest way to more cooperation at home is to stop chasing control? We sit down with Katherine Sellery, founder of Conscious Parenting Revolution, to explore why power moves and punishments so often backfire—and how connection-first strategies create durable trust and real influence. Katherine unpacks the “three Rs” that control tactics trigger—retaliation, rebellion, resistance—and shows how to interrupt that spiral with co-regulation, perspective-taking, and a reliable ritual of rupture and repair.We dig into the everyday moments that test our calm: public meltdowns with an audience, teens clamming up, and the sting of believi...