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Sue Donnellan

Parenting behavior consultant and host of the Ask Mom Parenting podcast, with 25+ years of experience helping parents reduce yelling and raise accountable kids.

Oct 5, 2026

5:09
Basically, what do parents get tripped up in in, like, everyday things that they're trying to solve, like little problems, that they're not realizing those aren't really that big a deal? It's the bigger, you know, decisions later.
5:22
Well, you know, you said it earlier, and it's a really good point, and I, I, I do talk about this in one of my podcasts, where we think every single day is a brand-new day.
5:30
You know, we, we, we are experiencing something new, and I, you know, part of stress on anyone's, in anyone's life is experiencing something new.
5:38
When we get out of our comfort zone and we're doing something new, it's highly stressful.
5:42
And when you think about parenting in that way, it's like every single day with our child is, is a day we've never seen.
5:49
It's a new phase.
5:50
It's a new age.

12 MINS LATER

18:03
[laughs] I wanna ask you, I know it depends on the kid, though, what is okay for me to give them a voice in?
11:49
Yes.
11:50
So I'm thinking, "How can I teach parents to be in prepare mode, prepared mode, and how can I take all that I've learned, distill it, and package it in a way that makes parenting easier?"That again, is repeatable, is a framework.
12:05
And again, my business brain works that way because I needed it that way.
12:10
In essence, what we're doing is we're ...
12:12
I've got, my system is preparing parents in advance, so we have a way, you know, I have a way of doing this through patterning, looking at patterns, interrupting the patterns, figuring out what makes you yell, or whatever it is you're trying to change.
12:23
So we start big picture.
12:24
We start with goals.
14:51
Mm.

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