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The Baffling Behavior Show {Parenting after Trauma}

The Baffling Behavior Show {Parenting after Trauma}

EP 286: A Checklist for BEING, not doing

Sep 29, 2026 · 42m

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I know how intensely we want a checklist. Do this, this, and this, and the dysregulation will end, and your kid will be OK. This episode is the story of chasing exactly that list (Dr. Sears' Attachment Parenting checklist that I worked to check off one by one) and finding something else entirely in Dan Siegel's Parenting From the Inside Out. He didn’t give a checklist at all, just a way of being. So, I can’t give you a checklist, but this episode is the closest thing I can give you: a s...