The Parent Inspiration Podcast

Learn 3 ways family rituals help our children by providing emotional security, strengthening family bonds, and creating identity and family values!

Letting our kids know mistakes are okay and we believe in them to make good choices helps them continue to make good choices in the future.

Learn from the research organization the Human Improvement Project as well as Mr. Rogers on what our kids fear and how we can best help them.

Having this mindness that our struggles also hold our superpowers and our weaknesses are just overused strengths helps us: see the good in ourselves and others and know when we can dial up or dial down our strengths to function at our best and know that WE ARE ENOUGH and beautiful exactly as we are

Today we're rewinding 12 years to what life was like parenting in all the craziness of motherhood when my kids were little. Come and relate to all my confessions and how I cope. I hope you feel lighter and full of hope after listening!

Come get inspired both by story and research how your children's next difficult moment can be a crucible for change and healing!

"When we become aware of the movies in our head, we do our children a great service. We not only stop playing out our self-created fantasies, but we absolve our children of guilt and shame for not making our fantasies come true. We release our children from the roles we cast them in, which are often not their voluntary choices, and instead help them to recast themselves in scripts that match who they truly are. In doing so, we finally free our children from the clutches of our claustrophobic fantasies and allow them, uncaged, to fly into a sky of endless possibilities for their own destiny and authentic essence." - Dr. Shefali, "The Parenting Map"

This episode helps us all relate to one another that we are normal! "You are normal" are also a powerful mantra we can tell our kids and today we'll learn why.

Here are statistics and research from offical government websites and other research organizations on the mental well being of parents! You are not alone in what your thinking, feeling, and going through!

Today we cover Laura Markham's tips on becoming a brilliant listener in her book Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids.

Laura Markham in her book Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids reveals what the essential secret ingredient is to being a happier parent.

In Laura Markham's book Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids she lists out 10 tips for raising terrific kids and today we cover her #4 - creating a safe place to just listen. She teaches that crys as well as laughter helps our kids release tension they have built up.

As part of our series on Laura Markham's book Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids, we learn about living in the moment more and what can heal us from our stresses.

When we are buried in what seems impossible, it can be easy to see all the ways our famliies are struggling. Seeing with new eyes can be so healing and seeing the divine can mean so many things whether you are religious or not.

We are doing a whole series on Laura Markham's parenting books. Today we cover how self regulation starts with the parent. Connection comes before correction. Instead of punishing behavior, guide them to cope with their emotions.

Learn from psychologists Dr. Dan Siegel, Dr. Ross Green, Dr. Laura Markham, Dr. T. Berry Brazelton, and Dr. Haim Ginott on how to view misbehavior. Today we cover when children are at their worst, that's when they need us the most. Kids do well if they can. All misbehavior is a cry for help. Every behavior is part of a child's way of striving for independence. Children act out because they cannot put their feelings into words.

Today we discuss the many things that can block us from feeling delighted and that we compassionately realize we don't need to feel it all the time. But these 5 things can help us feel delight more: Capsure the moments, being Curious, saying Certain sincere phrases, Cherishing our kids, and Connecting with playful energy.