Is My Child A Monster? A Parenting Therapy Podcast · Leslie Cohen-Rubury

Anna Part 2 of 2: When It Feels Like Your Kids Are Growing Up Too Fast And Other Fears

June 11, 2025·44 min·2 clips
Our childhood experiences don't disappear. They come with us, they inform and they impact our parenting.
In this live parenting coaching session, stay-at-home mom Anna returns to discuss sibling rivalry between her three children and her fears about approaching preteen years. Therapist Leslie Cohen-Ruby helps Anna connect her childhood experiences of unprotected sibling conflict to her current parenting reactivity, and provides concrete techniques including paradoxical intervention and validation-first approaches to sibling disputes.

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A steady look at how parenting fear can steer a family off course.

Anna's session keeps coming back to fear, and that gives it a clear center. Leslie Cohen-Ruby ties sibling rivalry, kids growing up too fast, and a glue-stick fight to the way anxious reactions can throw a parent off balance.

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You want a calmer way to handle sibling fights before fear takes over.

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