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178. Don’t water the weeds (intentional parenting for proactive connection) Simple on Purpose | Intentional Living and Parenting
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Giving your child extra attention might seem like a great idea, but if it’s the wrong type of attention it could do more harm than good. Let’s learn what it means to parent intentionally and make proactive connections with your family.
Products recommended here may include referral links to Amazon. If you click through and buy something I may earn a commission, at no cost to you.
In this episode I discuss:
Why we get stuck in the negative
Our negativity bias as parents
Your experience of motherhood
The Nurtured Heart approach
How to use this approach on 'difficult' kids
All the fun links you might enjoy:
Is momlife unfun? How to be a more fun mom, to stop withholding fun from yourself
More on the negativity bias
When I stopped enjoying my kids
Change your motherhood experience by changing how you make memories
Why you aren’t thriving in motherhood (stress and surviving)
Conscious parenting through the struggles, and letting go of perfectionism in motherhood
Transforming the Difficult Child: the Nurtured Heart Approach
Article on Nurtured Heart Approach
Do you typecast your kids? (Labels and how they impact our parenting and our kids)
Check out the episode playlists for your topic of interest right here
Simple pleasure links
The wordle (also search wordle unlimited for more)
The heardle (also search heardle unlimited)
Spot the difference site (click explorer games for more variety and levels)
Highlights hidden pictures book
Spot the difference brain games book
Sign up for the the Simple Saturdays email (a fun email, twice a month)
Full transcript (unedited)
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So friends around here, I like to talk about all the ways that we can turn off the autopilot living, just living reactively by default for me, it looked like a lot of complacency and step into doing things on purpose with intention, getting clear and focused on where we want to go and taking steps to get there. Today we're going to talk about intentional parenting, just parenting in general, but doing it with intention. And the topic of focus can come up in parenting, when we start thinking, what are we focusing on? What gets the most attention, what gets our most attention in a single day, what gets our attention as a parent. And I don't know if you're like me, but it can go to demands and the urgency who needs to be aware what needs to happen, what needs to be cooked, who's eating one of the eating, where the eating, and it's like, we're just directors of all of this. And of course, as our kids get older, we can start to give them ownership of this and they can start self directing. But our attention in a given day,
Giving your child extra attention might seem like a great idea, but if it’s the wrong type of attention it could do more harm than good. Let’s learn what it means to parent intentionally and make proactive connections with your family.
Products recommended here may include referral links to Amazon. If you click through and buy something I may earn a commission, at no cost to you.
In this episode I discuss:
Why we get stuck in the negative
Our negativity bias as parents
Your experience of motherhood
The Nurtured Heart approach
How to use this approach on 'difficult' kids
All the fun links you might enjoy:
Is momlife unfun? How to be a more fun mom, to stop withholding fun from yourself
More on the negativity bias
When I stopped enjoying my kids
Change your motherhood experience by changing how you make memories
Why you aren’t thriving in motherhood (stress and surviving)
Conscious parenting through the struggles, and letting go of perfectionism in motherhood
Transforming the Difficult Child: the Nurtured Heart Approach
Article on Nurtured Heart Approach
Do you typecast your kids? (Labels and how they impact our parenting and our kids)
Check out the episode playlists for your topic of interest right here
Simple pleasure links
The wordle (also search wordle unlimited for more)
The heardle (also search heardle unlimited)
Spot the difference site (click explorer games for more variety and levels)
Highlights hidden pictures book
Spot the difference brain games book
Sign up for the the Simple Saturdays email (a fun email, twice a month)
Full transcript (unedited)
0:18
So friends around here, I like to talk about all the ways that we can turn off the autopilot living, just living reactively by default for me, it looked like a lot of complacency and step into doing things on purpose with intention, getting clear and focused on where we want to go and taking steps to get there. Today we're going to talk about intentional parenting, just parenting in general, but doing it with intention. And the topic of focus can come up in parenting, when we start thinking, what are we focusing on? What gets the most attention, what gets our most attention in a single day, what gets our attention as a parent. And I don't know if you're like me, but it can go to demands and the urgency who needs to be aware what needs to happen, what needs to be cooked, who's eating one of the eating, where the eating, and it's like, we're just directors of all of this. And of course, as our kids get older, we can start to give them ownership of this and they can start self directing. But our attention in a given day,
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