Maintaining Secure Attachment While Disciplining Misbehavior

Maintaining Secure Attachment While Disciplining Misbehavior

Author: Creating a Family April 22, 2026 Duration: 47:59
Drop us some Fan Mail. Thanks! Could you use a few new strategies to help your child improve misbehavior? Listen to this conversation with Dr. Casey Call, the Associate Director of Education at the Karyn Purvis Institute of Child Development at TCU and Associate Professor of Professional Practice in the TCU Department of Psychology. She will help us understand how to maintain connection while correcting challenging behaviors. In this episode, we discuss: Why and how should parents and caregiv...

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