Eps 117: Solo show – A Bit About Choosing in, Being Kind and Firm, Making Agreements and Following Through

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Content:

• I am on the journey with you, I am with you! Highs and lows, you are my peeps!

• The teen saga continues….

• Having a teen is like birth, you think you’re so prepared and then…. Reality hits!

• Teen brain experiences everything so intensely

• Eps 115 was all about trust and surrender

• Celebrate the relationship

• Using and developing breath as a tool

• 4:45 Our children are our teachers – they picked us!

• We don’t know what we don’t know and our children highlight that for us

• Their way of being invites our “stuff” to the surface

• We then choose how to respond

• End of the day – they are operating from their developmental place, limited skills, brain development

• 7:50 Parenting is a never-ending growth and development workshop – we can choose to resist or to grow/evolve

• 9:15 There is a purpose to this journey

• Let’s live a life where we are paying attention

• Our children show us stepping stones to our own growth

• When we choose into growth and learning we can influence the experience we are having

• You can only change yourself, you can’t change others

• Positive Discipline for Teenagers

• Mistakes our kids make can rock our foundation and philosophy around parenting

• Being kind and firm at the same time is one of the pillars

• Peeling back layers of what that ^^ means

• Kindness only = permissive

• Firmness only = authoritarian

• Kind isn’t NICE, it’s connected, firm is respecting ourselves and the situation

• It’s about progress not perfection, and becoming ever more AWARE of what is happening for us

• Making agreements is a kind and firm PD parenting tool

• Get into our child’s world, here what their needs are, share what we need, make a plan together, declare a deadline, follow through (parents)

• “What was our agreement?”

• It’s not about being nice while we deliver a consequence…

• The invitation is to make agreements with YOUR children

• Not necessarily about the problem we solve, instead it is more about the life skills the kids are practicing inside of the agreement-making

• Not about finding a solution that lasts forever – every solution has a shelf life

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