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.

Learn what Dr. Daniel Siegel, Dr. Gordon Neufeld, Mr. Rogers, Dr. Becky Kennedy, Brene Brown, Dr. Ross Greene, and Dr. John Gottman says about the importance of delighting in our kids.

Mel Robbins teaches we all have a need to control, but as we learn to let go as much as we feel able to and empower our kids our relationship and our children can better thrive.

Today we discuss Dr. Alisa Pressman (developmental psychologist and author of The Five Principles of Parenting) and the best advice she's ever heard.

Learn from Mel Robbin's interview with Dr. Alisa Pressman (developmental psychologist, professor, and podcaster) and her book Five Principles of Parenting. Today's episode condenses her 5 Rs: Relationship, Reflection, Regulation, Rules, and Repair!

Learn from KC Davis' book How to Keep House While Drowning on our mindset around the mess! Today we discuss the inner bully, the little self, and the compassionate observer voices in our brains.

Today we cover so many traditions and fun ways to communicate I love you as well as ideas for one on one time. I also include some ideas from the 5 Love Languages for Children book.

Learn about a special tradition between parent and child (or spouse and child) that is so bonding.

In mental health professional Robyn Gobbel's book Raising Kids with Big Baffling Behaviors, she talks about the next 3 stages of activated watchdog brain. In this episode we discuss her parental strategies, how to stay calm, and things to watch out for when our child is very escalated, hostile, or doing dangerous behavior.

From the words of mental health professional Robyn Gobbel in her book "Raising Kids with Big Baffling Behaviors" we learn about the wise, calm "owl brain" which puts us in connection mode and the "watch dog" brain that puts us in protection mode since we or our kids feel threatened. She expalins the beginning watch dog brain, 2 stategies to use to help our child, and things to watch out for.

From Roybn Gobbel's book Raising Kids with Big Baffling Behaviors we learn that "all behaviors make sense." We will discuss how emotionally available are we, how safe do our children feel around us, and are we and our children in connection mode or protection mode?

Even if you love listening and understanding your kids, sometimes we can let barriers get in the way of truly listening. I had a humbling experience that helped me realize I need to get better at listening so I devoted a whole week to do just that. Come learn Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish's listening tips from their book How to Talk so Kids Will Listen and Listen so Kids Will Talk.

Today we discuss easy ways to teach and inspire with just writing a few things down!

Here are some ideas from pbskids' website as well as some research about what helps children become resilient. We can apply these into our own lives as well!

From psycholgoist Dr. Becky's Good Inside book we learn what fosters resilience in children and what we can do to help! You can reach Mindy at [email protected] or leave a review of what you are in need of for future podcasts.

Dr. Becky Kennedy, author of Good Inside and clinical psychologist, explains perhaps the two biggest goals of parenting. They are so encouraging and doable. We've got this!

Philippa Perry in her book "The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read (and Your Children Will be Glad That You Did) talks about this concept of feeling with are children rather than merely dealing with them. Our kids are good inside and are having a hard time rather than trying to give us a hard time.

Come learn some powerful tools for how to help our children process through really big emotions. These ideas come from Dr. Becky's book Good Inside as well as Philippa Perry's book The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read (and Your Children Will Be Glad That You Did).

We all have hard days! Hard can mean challenging moments or times of suffering. Hard can also describe being solid and not easily broken and having strength. Today we discuss two things that can help us get through our toughest days!

We can all take a break to find calm and patience again and take care of our emotional wellbeing so we can better address any storm we are in. Research shows that supportive physical touch can also we a way to reach calm and tame our nervous system.

Our children and ourselves sometimes wonder "Am I loveable? Am I likeable?" We can be that person in our child's life that they can turn to to reassure them of how we love them and we like them. We see their infinite worth and goodness even when others or they can't see it in themselves. Sometimes we all get frustrated with certain behaviors and we can learn to separate the behaviors with how we feel about our child.

Come learn about authors Philipa Perry and Dr. Shefali on a new shift in our parenting! These powerful ideas have revolutionzied my whole paradigm and how I interact with my kids.

Slipping into our partner's shoes or squeezing into our children's shoes can give us perspective that makes all the difference!

Come learn the second two ways to be a best friend to yourself: 1. Stand up for you and have your own back 2. Embrace all of you

Come learn the first two ways to be a best friend to yourself: Listen to you and Be kindly compassionate and comforting to yourself We can access wisdom rather than just criticism.

Are we using our inner critical voice or are we using our compassionate inner voice as if we were talking to a close friend? We are always with ourselves in our head giving ourselves running commentary on everything. We can learn to have a more positive relationship with ourselves and be there to support and comfort when we need it.

After a challenging moment with our kids, we can rewind and replay in our own minds what we think may have been going on for them leading up to the problem. We can share our "rewind and replay" with our kids to better understand and know how to move forward.

Get inspired with a doable easy idea for remembering our child's most important moments and sending messages to their future self!

Come learn the #1 thing we crave from our loved ones and what our loved ones crave from us.

When our kids spew out lava like responses, we can look deeper inside their figuartive volcano to see the magma brewing underneath. These hidden layers help us understand better and these moments are golden opportunities for connection.

We can be stretched so thin with all the work we need to get done and all of our kids' bids for attention to play. So this episode is throwing out all the parent guilt and celebrating ways we can connect and hang out as well as what the best parenting books say about giving our undivided attention to play.