What parents can do about losing their temper

Pastor Jimmy Bartz offers suggestions for when parents lose their tempers with their children
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What parents can do about losing their temper

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What do you do when you feel like you're failing as a parent or you're losing your temper in a parental moment? I think the first thing that you do is hit the pause button. You have some sense that Rome wasn't built in a day, and that neither are parents. Parenting is an identity, but it's also a set of practices. And by engaging a set of practices, we build our identity over time as mother or father or parent. So we know that in the moment nothing critical needs to happen. We can always push the pause button walk away, reengage whatever challenge we're facing at another moment in time when we're less stressed, more full, more open and able to address whatever challenge we're facing.

Pastor Jimmy Bartz offers suggestions for when parents lose their tempers with their children

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Jimmy Bartz

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Jimmy serves as rector of St. John’s Episcopal Church in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Prior to coming to Jackson, he was the founder and priest at Thad’s, an emergent Episcopal Church in the Santa Monica, California, in the Diocese of Los Angeles. He has also served as the Campus Missioner at the University of Texas in Austin, at All Saints’ in Austin, Texas, and All Saints’ Parish in Beverly Hills, California. He is a graduate the University of Texas at Austin and Virginia Theological Seminary. Presently, he serves as the Chair of the Board of the Episcopal Evangelism Society, and in years past has worked with Red Bull High Performance teaching athletes spiritual disciplines, with Naval Special Warfare working to create systems for character development within special operations teams, and was a speaker at TEDx, Venice Beach.
Married to Cindy and dad to Jas and Jade, the Bartz family loves to spend time outside mountaineering, skiing, fly-fishing, hunting and surfing.  Jimmy is currently writing a book on the spirituality of risk.

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